Grace Bryan Holmes was born in rural Georgia in 1919. During a troubled childhood, she frequently found solace in the black servants who cared for her family part-time. After the death of one of these servants, she resolved to help the woman's surviving children and grandchildren. Over the course of her life, this commitment altered her perspective on the racial prejudice so prevalent in her community. She shouldered the burden of her growing awareness through many years of service as the wife of a rising Baptist minister, until the gradual assertion of the convictions she had formed in silence brought her into direct conflict with prevailing social attitudes, her strong-willed mother, and her husband's congregation. Time to Reconcile is a redemptive account of a southern woman's struggle to free herself from the legacies of prejudice, parental domination, paternalism, and class-consciousness that had defined her life and constricted her thinking. Holmes's vividly detailed and extraordinarily honest recollections offer a refreshingly candid look at the fabric of southern society in the mid-twentieth century.
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Grace Bryan Holmes lives and writes in Decatur, Georgia.
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I found this book to be very enjoyable. It was very well written and the author was very descriptive in describing how things were during her life, and how they changed. I found it very interesting to see how much race relations have changed since the time the author was a girl.
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Way back in 1859, the African slave Dole had neglected to join two fence boards, allowing me a slit of window to the west, to the world outside the severe confines of Mother's. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Aunt Lou, Nannie Lee, Gainer Bryan, Tom Holmes, Miss Lila, New York, College Park, Martin Luther King, Tattnall Square, Uncle Tom, Thomas Holmes, Red Rover, Uncle Dole, Little Shug, Uncle Herbert, Little Buttermilk, Baptist Village, Anna Mary, Aunt Emma, Grandma Mary, Northside Drive, Ruby Jackson, African American, Atlanta Constitution, Dunn Row New!
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Way back in 1859, the African slave Dole had neglected to join two fence boards, allowing me a slit of window to the west, to the world outside the severe confines of Mother's. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Aunt Lou, Nannie Lee, Gainer Bryan, Tom Holmes, Miss Lila, New York, College Park, Martin Luther King, Tattnall Square, Uncle Tom, Thomas Holmes, Red Rover, Uncle Dole, Little Shug, Uncle Herbert, Little Buttermilk, Baptist Village, Anna Mary, Aunt Emma, Grandma Mary, Northside Drive, Ruby Jackson, African American, Atlanta Constitution, Dunn Row New!
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- The Selected Letters by T. E. Lawrence in Back Matter
- Martin Luther King (Great Lives) by Nigel Hunter on page 273
- Old South by Fletcher Melvin Green in Back Matter
- Shadows on My Heart: The Civil War Diary of Lucy Rebecca Buck of Virginia (Southern Voices from the Past: Women's Letters, Diaries, and Writings) by Lucy Rebecca Buck in Back Matter
- Little Brother by David Mason on page 27
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