Middle Georgia and the approach of modernity : essays on race, culture and daily life, 1885/1945 /

"This collection of new essays describes the lives of the common people of the day. A grisly mass murder underscored issues of race, class and poverty. African Americans struggled for self-betterment against the rise of Jim Crow. Women striving to overcome gender barriers found a hero in a pion...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Van Hartesveldt, Fred R. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
Temas:
African Americans > Georgia > History.
Women > Georgia > History.
Women > Georgia > Biography.
Noirs américains > Géorgie (État) > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
African Americans.
Literature.
Social conditions.
Women.
Georgia > History.
Georgia > Social conditions.
Georgia > In literature.
Géorgie (État) > Histoire.
Géorgie (État) > Conditions sociales.
Géorgie (État) > Dans la littérature.
Georgia.
Biography
Biographies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Woolfolk murders, 1887: adjusting one race myth / Chrissy Lutz
  • Otis O'Neal, the Ham and egg show and Georgia's African American farmers: the first two decades (1915/1935) / Dawn J. Herd-Clark and Kyle Harris
  • Pestilence in the mid state: the influenza pandemic of 1918/1919 in middle Georgia / Fred R. van Hartesveldt
  • "Georgia on my mind": Jean Toomer's portrait of middle Georgia women in Cane / Washella Turner Simmons
  • Packing peppers at Pomona: the pimiento pepper industry in middle Georgia, 1911/1955 / Helen L. Brackett
  • Hundred dozen eggs: Margaret Toomer and the Ham and egg show / Dawn J. Herd-Clark and Kymara D. Sneed
  • Becoming a middle Georgia writer: rethinking the influence of Carson McCullers and Erskine Caldwell
  • On Flannery O'connor / Marshall Bruce Gentry
  • Flying high in Griffin: Charlotte Frye takes to the skies / Helen L. Brackett
  • Pine Mountain Valley: A New Deal experiment in community building / Kathryn W. Kemp
  • With us, not for us: a history of library services to African Americans in Macon, Georgia, 1881/1970 / Shaundra Walker.

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