race

Excerpt from Chapter 27 of "The Sword of the Lord" by Andrew Himes. -- In the 21^st century, it’s almost impossible for people in the South or anywhere else to maintain ideas about race, religion, or politics that we inherited without questioning in the 19^th or 20^th centuries.

Excerpt from The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family.

It is clear almost from the beginning that Bigger Thomas is doomed, trapped in a downward spiral that will lead to arrest, prison, or death, driven by despair, frustration, poverty, and incomprehension.