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  • On Claudia Jones…
    • P.S. “A Strange and Terrible Sight” – 2019 post
    • P.S. The Windrush Generation – 2018 post
    • P.S. “Not used in Bulletin. Put in file.” (1956) – 2017 post
    • Coming of Age in the 1950s All Over Again – 2016 post
    • Finding Claudia Jones – 2015 post
    • “A Pride in Being West Indian”: Claudia Jones and The West Indian Gazette – 2012 paper
    • “A Strange and Terrible Sight in Our Country” – 2006 essay
    • “An Editorial: Colour-Bar Act Emboldens Fascists” (Claudia Jones: July 1962)
    • Claudia Jones’ Letter from Ellis Island, 1950
  • On Margery Kempe…
    • “This Creature”: 40 Years of Margery Kempe – 2015 post
    • Mystic and Pilgrim: The Book and the World of Margery Kempe – 1983 book
    • Margery Kempe Society (Laura Williams & Laura Varnam)
  • About Clarissa Atkinson

Privacy, Then and Now: Reflecting on Griswold

I was the mother of three in 1965, when it became legal for married couples in Connecticut to buy and Continue reading →

For the Duration

When one of my granddaughters asked if the Covid-19 experience was like anything I could remember, I said no. But Continue reading →

View of Statue of Liberty from Ellis Island detention window

P.S. “A Strange and Terrible Sight”

Frightened and enraged by the crimes and abuses of the Trump administration and its enablers, I look back for hope Continue reading →

P.S. The Windrush Generation

I have posted more than once about Claudia Jones and her life and work in London with the “Windrush Generation.” Continue reading →

“I Question America”

I have written here before about the Greatest Generation, born between about 1909 and 1929 and celebrated for enduring the Continue reading →

P.S. Public (?) Education (?)

In April [2017] I posted here about Trump’s dismal choice of a Secretary of Education who neither knows nor cares Continue reading →

P.S. “Not used in Bulletin. Put in file.” (1956)

In an earlier post and two essays I have written about my search-and-discovery experience of “Finding Claudia Jones,” the extraordinary Continue reading →

“School Choice”: DeVos v. Education

Much too often since the election of Donald Trump, I have felt a sickening sense of return to the 1950s. Continue reading →

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