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Delta fragments : the recollections of a sharecropper's son /
The son of Black sharecroppers, the author attended segregated schools in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the 1950s and '60s, worked in plantation cotton fields, and eventually left the region to earn multiple degrees and become a tenured university professor. This is an autobiographical journey bac...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Knoxville :
The University of Tennessee Press,
[2013]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Learning. The Delta ; The Wilsons ; The Hodgeses ; My Mother ; My Sister ; My Stepfather ; Whittington Plantation ; Settlement Time ; One-Room Schoolhouse ; G Street Boys ; Schoolmates ; My Teachers ; Going to the 'House
- Reflecting. Delta Blues ; Gambling on the River ; Black Ways and Other Folkways ; African Gods in Mississippi ; A Delta Revival ; The Black Church ; The Black Preacher ; The Folk Sermon ; Is God Good? ; The Color Line ; Emmett Till ; Ruleville Revisited: Reflections Fifty Years After Marius ; Civil Rights ; Medgar ; 1963 ; Endesha : A New Walk for Freedom ; Whites in the Struggle ; Reunion as Pilgrimage
- Epilogue : The Delta Then and Now
- Appendix 1 : Table of Black and White Persons in the Delta by Population, Education, and Income
- Appendix 2 : Reports Relating to 1962 Civil Rights Activities in Which Author Was Involved.