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What Do George Floyd, Jefferson Davis, Quaker Oats and Aunt Jemima Have in Common? : They Have All Become Symbols in America’s Conversation About Race

Trish Deveneau20 Comments

I've spent the weeks since George Floyd's murder finishing a chapter on the background story of my mother's Christian County, Kentucky family. Finding out that Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America, was born just miles from my family's farm was unexpected; reading about last week's removal of the statue erected in… Continue reading What Do George Floyd, Jefferson Davis, Quaker Oats and Aunt Jemima Have in Common? : They Have All Become Symbols in America’s Conversation About Race