Analysis Of Ax Handle Saturday By Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou once remarked, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” Sadly, this agony is commonplace to millions of Blacks, whose stories are often untold or unheard, let alone published and read by the world. My first book, It was never about a hot dog and a Coke! was my first hand account about Ax Handle Saturday and the 1960 Jacksonville Youth Council NAACP sit-ins. I wrote the book for several reasons: 1) The local press blacked out all news about Ax Handle Saturday and the sit-ins which led to that infamous day; 2) there was a wealth of “revisionist history” floating around which was not even close to the truth; and 3) I wanted to both tell the story and also set the record straight before more “revisionist