Love's Bright Fire: A Friendship, A Lynching, A Daughter’s Journey to Reveal the Truth
Part travel journal, part memoir, part historical investigation, all in service to revealing the struggle, courage and losses of the men we loved and who suffered through the White Redemption period of early 20th century Southern life.
Hatchie River bottom, Tennessee
1937 steel bridge
One of the pleasures of research road trips
Nicodemous Kansas: Founded by the Exodusters
Recruiting Freedpeople to safety
Rebecca’s idea of sightseeing
WW I Black Regiment
Virgil and Albert’s favorite ride
Cotton Field in Bloom
Tipton County
Nat Williams, Journalist, Teacher, Disc Jockey
Rebecca O. Johnson explores the history and landscape of dispossession in the lives of Black and Brown People of Color.
In the cotton gin
Rebecca O. Johnson explores the history and landscape of dispossession in the lives of Black and Brown People of Color.
Love's Bright Fire: A Friendship, A Lynching, A Daughter’s Journey to Reveal the Truth