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Quiet Voices in a Noisy World

Summary

QUIET VOICES IN A NOISY WORLD follows African American volunteers in Jasper, Texas working to reclaim their community’s dignity through grassroots projects centered on history, memory, and justice. In a town marked by the legacy of racial violence, including the 1998 lynching of James Byrd Jr., residents preserve African American history through museums, monuments, and memorials while confronting the past and building a more just future.

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