Dreaming Me (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jan Willis
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Memoirs and religion
- Time of Work: 1948-2000
- Setting: Docena, near Birmingham, Alabama; Ithaca, New York; India; Nepal; Santa Cruz, California; Middletown, Connecticut
- Principal Characters: Janice Dean “Jan” Willis, Oram Willis, Dorothy Willis, Sandra Willis Williams, Randy Fingerhut Solick, Robbie Solick, Lama Yeshe
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Religion and spirituality
- Subjects: 1950’s, African Americans, 1960’s, 1970’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, 1940’s, 1980’s, California, West, U.S., Connecticut, India or East Indian people, Alabama, Pacific Northwest, 1990’s, Buddhism, 2000’s
- Locales: Birmingham, AL, Connecticut, India, Nepal, Ithaca, NY, Santa Cruz, CA
In African American history, the tumultuous period between the mid-1950’s and 1969 was a time of intense struggle for long-suppressed civil rights throughout the United States. Many African Americans engaged in some kind of protest that ranged from the nonviolence of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., to the violence of the Black Panthers. Memoirs of the participants in the Second American Reconstruction have become common. This book by Jan Willis is rare in this field. Few blacks sought an avenue of personal healing that looked to the wisdom of Eastern cultures. Jan Willis chose...
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