They Followed the North Wind

North Wind is an unflinching historical record of Black American life from 1865 to 1965, one hundred years that defined the long struggle from emancipation to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.Dr. Jack Washington wrote not simply as a historian but as a man who understood that history is not the past. It is the present in disguise. From the betrayals of Reconstruction to the rise of Jim Crow, f...