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Sallie's posts tagged ‘Civil Rights Movement’

We Shall Overcome

November 20th, 2024 by Sallie Bingham in Politics Leave a Comment

Photo of woman reading newspaper headline - They're Pouring In From All Over

We have been through hard times, politically, often before, although many are probably too young to have witnessed Vietnam or the McCarthy period, when it also seemed as though Democracy was at stake. 

In Politics Civil Rights Movement 2024 Election

The Self-Realization Fellowship and Doris Duke

July 8th, 2014 by Sallie Bingham in Writing 3 Comments

Self-Realization Fellowship

If there is a chance, and I think there is one, that Doris was touched and perhaps even changed by her connection, whatever it may prove to have been, with the Self-Realization Fellowship, her miseries would have been if not reduced, placed in a realistic context, uniting her with her fellows.

In Writing Self-Realization Fellowship American Civil Liberties Union American Tobacco Company Doris Duke Yogananda James Duke Ghandi Civil Rights Movement Theosophy Falcon’s Lair James Buchanan Duke A Dangerous Personality Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Fellowship of Reconciliation

The High Cost of High Fashion

April 17th, 2014 by Sallie Bingham in Politics Leave a Comment

Rana Plaza building collapse

We are not powerless. One of the great moments in the history of The Civil Rights Movement―April 11th, 1970―occurred when African-Americans in Atlanta boycotted Rich’s Department Store where traditionally they spent a lot of money buying Easter suits and hats.

In Politics Rich's Department Store Bangladesh Rana Plaza Civil Rights Movement

 

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Visiting Linda Stein

Visiting Linda Stein

March 3rd, 2025
Back on October 28th, 2008, I visited artist Linda Stein's studio in New York City and tried on a few of her handmade suits of armor.
On Memoir and My Writing Memoir/Writing History Workshops

On Memoir and My Writing Memoir/Writing History Workshops

February 11th, 2024
I think memoir writing is a much more serious task than it's often considered to be. It's not informal, it's not casual. It really is the writing of

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Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

Rebecca Reynolds & Salie Bingham at SOMOS

November 8th, 2024
This event was recorded November 1, 2024 in Taos, NM at SOMOS Salon & Bookshop by KCEI Radio, Red River/Taos and broadcast on November 8, 2024.
Taken by the Shawnee Reading

Taken by the Shawnee Reading

September 1st, 2024
This reading took place at The Church of the Holy Faith in Santa Fe, New Mexico in August of 2024.

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I look on the eighteen short stories in my forthcoming book How Daddy Lost His Ear and Other Stories as a miracle I will never entirely understand—or need to, but here's a stab at it. "It's Coming!": https://buff.ly/4jXDyEX @turtleppress

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One of the rants we hear a good deal lately from a certain quarter has to do with the death of manufacturing in the U.S. and unhinged speculation about bringing it back... but what was this industry? When and where did it flourish? https://buff.ly/j5Tj6a0 #LouisvilleKY #madeinKY

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Sallie Bingham's latest is a captivating account of ancestor's ordeal
Pasatiempo, The Santa Fe New Mexican

“I felt she was with me” during the process of writing the book, Bingham says. “I felt I wasn’t writing anything that would have seemed to her false or unreal.”

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