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Recently Posted American Stories
A Journey into the Unknown
67-hundred Japanese companies operate in the United States. More than 40-thousand families have moved here. It is pioneer journey that covers more than miles. They will live in a world which to them is both exotic and enticing. When different cultures manage to live together in friendship, they sometimes create something better. It has happened before. In America.
Civil Rights Era’s Forgotten Women
Virginia Durr, born to privilege and high place, battled intolerance whatever its form. She took a Japanese family into her home during World War Two because they had nowhere to live. Was branded a Communist for her compassion and hauled before a Senate subcommittee in the 1950’s. Successfully fought the pole tax that freed the vote for women. And was one of the few, the very few, white southerners who openly resisted the violent currents of her time.
A little Scary
Eric Gray worked nights as a flight attendant, so he could take pharmacy classes by day. His family pitched in to keep him in college. Five of them lived on $22-thousand dollars a year. Eric faced a hard choice. Get insurance or eat. The family opted for food.
Eric Gray got his Phd. But just days before he could take a job that would provide him with insurance coverage, he learned his son, Eric, jr. had cancer. After one hospital stay, two weeks, the bill was $43-thousand dollars.
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“Throughout his remarkable career Bob Dotson has searched for the real essence of America – not by interviewing the so-called famous but by seeking out those unnoticed people we pass by every day. Dotson is a national treasure for caring enough to listen.”
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