World Magazine Plugs Stonewall Jackson Book

I am most grateful that Marvin Olasky, Ph.D., made a positive mention of my book about Stonewall Jackson's black Sunday school class in the current issue of World Magazine. Marvin Olasky is Editor In Chief of World, a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, and author of 13 books.

THOUGHTS | February 03, 2007 World Magazine

New books challenge views of the past, assumptions about the future | Marvin Olasky

White Brits and Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries repeatedly struggled with issues explored in schools during February, Black History Month:

Richard G. Williams Jr.'s easy-to-read Stonewall Jackson: The Black Man's Friend (Cumberland House, 2006) shows how Jackson broke Virginia law during the six years before the Civil War by teaching slaves to read during a "Sabbath-school" school class. He also invited neighborhood blacks into his home for evening worship, even though the law banned all after-dark assemblies.