Highlander celebrates the life of John Egerton who passed away on Nov. 21. He wrote on the Civil Rights Movement, Southern food, and the history of the South. His book “Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation before the Civil Rights Movement in the South”, told an account of Highlander’s early days.
Two columns have been written about Egerton and can be found below.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/us/john-egerton-lent-spice-to-social-justice-dies-at-78.html?_r=0
