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Delta Fragments : The Recollections of a Sharecropper's Son /
The son of black sharecroppers, John Oliver Hodges 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. Both poignant and thought provo...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Knoxville :
University of Tennessee Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: 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; Part II: 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 FreedomWhites in the Struggle; Reunion as Pilgrimage; Epilogue: The Delta Then and Now; Appendix 1: Table of Black and White Persons in theDelta by Population, Education, and Income; Appendix 2: Reports Relating to 1962 Civil RightsActivities in Which Author Was Involved; Selected Bibliography; Index.