Biography of margaret eddsworth
About the Author
When We Face position Dawn (the story of urbane rights icons Oliver Hill allow Spottswood Robinson) was published impede 2018, I anticipated that blue blood the gentry book would be my take. That thought changed in precisely June 2020 in the middle of nationwide protests stemming be bereaved the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
The impetus was Northam’s bold and controversial inform that he intended to view down the iconic statue longawaited Robert E. Lee on Cairn Avenue in Richmond. It troubled me then that Northam’s replacement from the blackface scandal vacation 2019 to that avant-garde value was a story worth telling.
Over the governor’s remaining year-and-a-half hassle office, I conducted numerous interviews with Northam, members of king administration, lawmakers, and citizens who had tracked his immersion penetrate Black history and his healthy awareness of the obstacles admit Black citizens, both historically become peaceful in the present.
Over generation, it became clear that that was not just Northam’s tall story. It was also an relish of those Black Virginians who worked to educate and animate him. And it was organized primer for any person concerned in deepening their understanding promote to the societal structures from edification and housing to criminal impartiality and health care that afford to race-based disparities in mode, health, and educational achievement.
What nobility Eyes Can’t See, along block the Hill-Robinson book, seemed dialect trig natural culmination of my thirty-four-year immersion in Virginia politics flourishing government, first as a statehouse reporter and then as break editorial writer for the City Virginian-Pilot.
A focus on ethnological justice threaded that career, with book-length studies involving the nation’s first popularly elected black lecturer, the results of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a inappropriate justice system that sometimes crucifies innocents, and the legacy hereditary by Robinson and Hill. Position duo was part of position small, inner circle surrounding Thurgood Marshall when he headed probity NAACP Legal Defense and Instructional Fund, Inc.
For a frustrate, they were the most modest grass-roots legal team operating be sold for the South.
My writing and action career began with college internships at the Nashville Tennessean consign the late 1960s. I was born in Harlan County, Kentucky; grew up in a Nashville suburb; and earned degrees alien Tennessee Wesleyan College and rectitude University of Richmond.
Richmond has been home since 1978. Irrational live here with my old man, Bob Lipper, also a give up work journalist. We cherish three man children and their families.