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Confederacy of Silence

2002 book by Richard Rubin

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ5159656 ↗
Source-derived summary

Confederacy of Silence: A True Tale of the New Old South is a 2002 book by Richard Rubin. It is about Rubin's experience as a recent University of Pennsylvania graduate and work as a reporter in Greenwood, Mississippi. It was published by Atria Books in 2002 (ISBN 9780671036669).

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External links

Richard Rubin's website

Interviews with Rubin about Confederacy of Silence

North Country Public Radio. May 13, 2009

Andrew Meyer. WBGO Radio. December 27, 2002

The Tavis Smiley Show. National Public Radio. September 19, 2002

The Diane Rehm Show. National Public Radio.

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“Confederacy of Silence” enters the record as 2002 book by Richard Rubin. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Confederacy, Silence and book can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5159656. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2002 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “Confederacy of Silence” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.