An old fight on the same front

By: Kendal Weaver

Outlets: Alabama Reflector

Published: April 9, 2026

Words: 567

Last Updated: 3 months, 3 weeks ago

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Jerome Gary Cooper, a tall, congenial Black man honored for path-setting combat service in Vietnam in 1966, told the story of his and his Mobile family’s fight against Jim Crow in the book Ten Stars, which I wrote in collaboration with him more than a decade ago. His story resonates today in ways he and I never imagined when we began the project.

The book, part oral history covering a seismic period in American life, …

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