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Fatheralong
John Edgar Wideman is a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine and the author, most recently, of the novel Fanon (Houghton Mifflin).
*The word I heard as a child when the church sang “Farther Along.”
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| SEE ALSO: African American fathers; Civil rights; Death and burial; Till, Emmett; Till, Louis; Race discrimination | |||
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