Mimi Borders – Reads A Lot

The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsSeptember 21, 2023 by Mimi Borders

[ad_1] In Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights, historian Dylan Penningroth points to the journey towards civil rights for Black Americans beginning “in the fields and cabins of slaves.” Here, in the thick of Antebellum slavery, slaves crafted a knowledge of the law through acts such as accumulation and claims of … Read more

The Echoes of Artifacts in “All That She Carried” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsJune 11, 2021 by Mimi Borders

[ad_1] Just like Tiya Miles, historian at Harvard University and author of All That She Carried, I grew up in Cincinnati, a city where history, voices and ghosts enter without knocking. For Miles, these echoes are held within her Great Aunt Margaret Stribling’s quilt, for me it is my great grandmother’s silver spoon, and for … Read more