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In 1980 I finished college in Massachusetts, and through a series of circumstances having little to do with interest in racial justice, I accepted a job for the summer in the inner city of Atlanta. In preparation for the work, I was asked to read John Perkins's memoir, Let Justice Roll Down. While vacationing after graduation, I picked up the book. Page one, opening paragraphs: I remember when it happened like it was yesterday. Only it wasn't yesterday. It was summer 1946. The war was over, and it was cotton-picking time in New Hebron.
That summer of 1946 was a hot one. Real hot-with a limp kind of heat that lay over the land like a blanket.