Anniston Star - Harvey H Jackson Finding diversity on the beach

Anniston Star - Harvey H Jackson Finding diversity on the beach: "Anyone who has ever researched black history knows how difficult it is. Written records often are hard to find. Stories change from person to person, generation to generation, making figuring out who did what, when and to whom — and why — is not easy.

This process can turn speculation into accepted fact pretty fast, so you gotta be careful.

When I started my Redneck Riviera work, I quickly wrote off the possibility of finding black folks frolicking on the beach. On my many trips to the coast, an African-American was about as rare as a theologian. Just weren’t any. In fact, the whole concept of “Redneck” Riviera was that the coast was white, which is what “rednecks” always were."