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At first glance, Jessica Ingram's landscape photographs could have been made nearly anywhere in the American South: a fenced-in backyard, a dirt road lined by overgrowth, a field grooved with muddy tire prints. These seemingly ordinary places, however, were the sites of pivotal events during the civil rights era, though often there is not a plaque with dates and names to mark their importance. Many of these places are where the bodies of African Americans-activists, mill workers, store owners, sharecroppers, children and teenagers-were murdered or found, victims of racist violence. These images are interspersed with oral histories from victims' families and investigative journalists, as well as pages from newspapers and FBI files and other ephemera. With Road Through Midnight, the result of nearly a decade of research and fieldwork, Ingram unlocks powerful and complex histories to reframe these commonplace landscapes as sites of both remembrance and resistance and transform the way we regard both what has happened and what's happening now-as the fight for civil rights goes on and memorialization has become the literal subject of contested cultural and societal ground.

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A haunting monograph that presents narratives of struggle, injustice, and unspeakable brutality in almost austere fashion. . . . In showing us how everyday landscapes are forever scarred by violent histories, Ingram is telling us that the wounds of slavery, segregation, and white supremacist ideology survive in ways we refuse to see, in our cities, prisons, schools, and neighborhoods.--Chapter 16 Road Through Midnight is not an easy read, nor is it meant to be, but it is a powerful means for learning part of our shared history. Jessica Ingram spent more than a decade creating what she describes as an interpretive and suggestive work rather than a scholarly one, but one that--through her photographs, detailed research, and many personal interviews--will help readers connect the past to the present and with what still remains to be done.--Georgia Library Quarterly [A] marvelous, evocative meditation on the power of remembering. . . . Every reader who opens this book will take something different from it.--The North Carolina Historical Review

A haunting monograph that presents narratives of struggle, injustice, and unspeakable brutality in almost austere fashion. . . . In showing us how everyday landscapes are forever scarred by violent histories, Ingram is telling us that the wounds of slavery, segregation, and white supremacist ideology survive in ways we refuse to see, in our cities, prisons, schools, and neighborhoods.--Chapter 16

[A] marvelous, evocative meditation on the power of remembering. . . . Every reader who opens this book will take something different from it.--The North Carolina Historical Review Road Through Midnight is not an easy read, nor is it meant to be, but it is a powerful means for learning part of our shared history. Jessica Ingram spent more than a decade creating what she describes as an interpretive and suggestive work rather than a scholarly one, but one that--through her photographs, detailed research, and many personal interviews--will help readers connect the past to the present and with what still remains to be done.--Georgia Library Quarterly A haunting monograph that presents narratives of struggle, injustice, and unspeakable brutality in almost austere fashion. . . . In showing us how everyday landscapes are forever scarred by violent histories, Ingram is telling us that the wounds of slavery, segregation, and white supremacist ideology survive in ways we refuse to see, in our cities, prisons, schools, and neighborhoods.--Chapter 16

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Jessica Ingram is assistant professor of art at Florida State University.

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