My mothers family settled on the Illinois side of St. Louis after - TopicsExpress



          

My mothers family settled on the Illinois side of St. Louis after their abolitionist church (Reformed Presbyterian or Covenanter Church) forced them to leave the South Carolina piedmont. I spent the first 10 years of my life in a sundown town 40 miles southeast of St. Louis and my ashes will go there at my end. The current situation in Ferguson is tragic but also needs to be put into historical context starting with the Missouri Compromise and continuing through a governmental St. Louis City-St. Louis County divide that has created past and current tensions. Looters are in the wrong but so may be a racial divide that has long and deep roots.
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 23:09:15 +0000

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