The stained glass window: a family history as the American story, 1790-1958

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Ward, Jeffrey L.

Lewis, David Levering, 1936-

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Lewis, David Levering

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"National Humanities Medal recipient and two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize David Levering Lewis's own family history that shifts our understanding of the larger American story Sitting beneath a stained-glass window dedicated to his grandmother in the Atlanta church where his family had prayed for generations, it struck Lewis that he knew very little about those ancestors. And so, in his mid-80s, the esteemed historian began to excavate their past and his own. We know that there is no singular, quintessential American story. Yet, the Lewis family contains many defining ones. His lineage leads him to the Kings and Belvinses, two white slaveholding families in Georgia; to the Bells, a mulatto slaveholding family in South Carolina; and to the Lewises, an up-from-slavery black family in Georgia. In The Stained-Glass Window, Lewis is heir and chronicler of them all. His father, John Henry Lewis, Sr. set Lewis on the path he would doggedly pursue, introducing him to W.E.B. Du Bois and living by example as an aid to Thurgood Marshall in a key civil rights case in Little Rock. In The Stained-Glass Widow, Lewis reckons with his legacy in full, facing his ancestors and all that was lost, all the doors that were closed to them. In this country, the bonds of kinship and the horrific fetters of slavery are themselves bound up together. The fight for equity, the loud echoes of the antebellum project in our present, and narratives of exceptionalism are ever with us-in these pages, so too are the voices of Clarissa, Isaac, Hattie, Alice, and John who have shaped this nation and will transform the way we see it."--

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East Regional
Eva H. Perry Regional
Express Library Fayetteville St.
Fuquay-Varina Community
Holly Springs Community
Middle Creek Community
Southeast Regional
Southgate Community
Wake Forest Community
Wendell Community

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2025

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African American families -- Southern States -- Biography
African Americans -- Southern States -- Genealogy
Bell family
Belvin family
Enslaved persons -- Southern States -- Genealogy
King family
Lewis family
Lewis, David Levering, -- 1936- -- Family
Multiracial families -- Southern States -- Genealogy
United States -- History

The stained glass window : a family history as the American story, 1790-1958

The stained glass window : a family history as the American story, 1790-1958 / David Levering Lewis

The stained glass window

a family history as the American story, 1790-1958

African American families
African Americans
Bell family
Belvin family
Enslaved persons
Family
History
King family
Lewis family
Lewis, David Levering
Multiracial families