And Bass beat his master up and ran to Indian Territory at the time. And they got into an argument over a card game. He would travel with him to the Civil War, where was a colonel. Gill tells Rath about the stories that inspire him, how he uses comics to communicate history and why he created the hashtag #28daysarenotenough.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Tales of the Talented Tenth, Volume 1 Subtitle Bass Reeves Author Joel Christian Gill DuBois' idea that a "talented tenth" of the African-American population could lead the rest to social change. He's the subject of the first installment of Gill's Tales of the Talented Tenth - a reference to W.E.B. marshal named Bass Reeves warrants his own book. Nine stories are collected in his graphic anthology Strange Fruit, Volume 1: Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History - named after the Abel Meeropol poem and Billie Holiday song " Strange Fruit." The book opens with a drawing of a crowd, holding up a lynching rope with the noose cut off - a visual metaphor, Gill says, that shows how far black Americans have come, while living with the reminder of the struggle. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Strange Fruit, Volume 1 Subtitle Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History Author Joel Christian Gill
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