#george dawson

[blackswaneuroparedux]

The fact is, Shakespeare was not sectarian; he pleaded nobody's mission, he stated nobody's cause. He has written with a view to be a mirror of things as they are; and shows the office of the true poet and literary man, which is to re-create the soul of man as God has created it, and human society as man has made it.

- George Dawson, Shakespeare and Other Lectures (1888)

[thatwritererinoriordan]

Book banned at a school named after its author

Book banned at a school named after its author | Boing Boing

The book Life is So Good, co-written by George Dawson, is banned at George Dawson Middle School in Southlake, Texas. The same George Dawson

[notthesodaa]

carrie canon is weird bc fym a character that appears ONCE in most adaptions has not once. not two. not three. but FOUR love interests.

[notthesodaa]

i just realized i have been getting george’s last name wrong for ages. wtf

[ohheyfullmetal]

If I see one more book banning, I’m going to find the perpetrator and hit them over the head repeatedly with Fahrenheit 451.

[filosofablogger]

A Special Man And His Memories

A Special Man And His Memories

I’d like to tell you a little bit about a man named George Dawson.  George was born in 1898 in a dirt-floor cabin in Marshall, Texas.  He was the son of a farmer, and both of his grandparents and great-grandparents were African-American slaves. Though freed at the end of the Civil War, they had to stay on the plantation for ten years to work off their debt to their former master’s store. George’s…

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IN MEMORIAM:

Funeral Program for Bro GEORGE ROBERTSON DAWSON, dated February 28, 2013.