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

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