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Civil Rights Childhood /

Two voices blend in this poignant memoir from the Civil Rights era in Mississippi--a father's and a daughter's. He was Andrew L. Jordan, a son in a dirt-poor family of sharecroppers near Greenwood. Jordana Shakoor is his little girl who grew up to write this book. In her southern childhood...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Shakoor, Jordana Y., 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Chapter 1 Son of Mississippi Sharecroppers; Chapter 2 Fear and Discrimination; Chapter 3 Mama's Plantation; Chapter 4 A Colored Soldier; Chapter 5 A Lynching in Money, Mississippi; Chapter 6 Five Little Girls; Chapter 7 Granddaddy Jordan during the Struggle; Chapter 8 A Teacher Takes a Stand; Chapter 9 The Death of a Leader; Chapter 10 Blackballed in Mississippi; Chapter 11 The Last Summer; Chapter 12 Moving to Ohio; Chapter 13 A Schoolteacher.