Exactly fifty years ago, the United States Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin became illegal. Yet even today we are repeatedly reminded that, in action, the civil rights struggle is far from over. The Silence of Our Friends, Mark Long’s graphic memoir of his childhood amid escalating racial tensions in 1960‘s Houston, is a nostalgic but frank portrayal of this time and place, so paradoxically innocent and sinister.
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Words on The Silence of Our Friends
Posted: May 21, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic BooksTags: 1960's, Civil Rights Act, Houston, Mark Long, Martin Luther King Jr., Nate Powell, Texas Southern University, The Silence of Our Friends
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