Witness to Injustice by David Frost, Jr. edited by Louise Westling
with an introduction by Charles Reagan Wilson There were two events
in particular that had a lasting effect on the life of David Frost,
Jr. Watching my parents make moonshine in our back yard in a
washpot, he says, and listening to my parents tell the story of how
the Peterson boy was lynched here in Eufaula. My parents would tell
it like it had just happened. In this compelling account of his
life as an African American in Eufaula, Alabama, Frost illuminates
the strange world of the rural South. He was a living witness to
both the dramatic racial violence and the heroic struggles of the
civil rights movement. This world included lynchings as well as the
quieter activities of everyday life. His story, told honestly and
earnestly, pictures an alternately violent and placid community
where whites not only brutalized blacks but also came to their aid.
Frost tells of the intricate web of collusion, cooperation,
treachery, competition, and sometimes gleeful gamesmanship that
wove together the lives of black and white people in this typical
southern community. His story recounts his unique perspective on
this complex social culture in which strange twists governed daily
life, in which a black moonshiner evading the law might take the
white sheriff hunting on his property, a culture in which a white
doctor, the leader of a lynch mob, spent the rest of his life
trying to atone by serving the medical needs of the black
community. Although there are multitudinous analyses, narratives,
and reports detailing the baffling enigmas of southern history, in
this exceptional memoir a fresh, previously unheard voice reveals
cultural complexities that most historians have neglected. David
Frost, Jr. (deceased) lived in Eufaula, Alabama. Louise Westling is
Professor Emerita of English at the University of Oregon. Charles
Reagan Wilson is a professor of history and southern studies at the
University of Mississippi.
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