Continuing the Conversation of Equality in When Stars Align
by CAROLE EGLASH-KOSOFF were not always as simple as some history books, or award-winning films, would let us believe. In the mid-19th century, not all southern Negroes were treated as benignly as they were in Gone With The Wind, nor as violently as it was depicted in Twelve Years A Slave. The end of the Civil War brought the end of slavery but it did little to end the violence and brutality inflicted on the free…