Ahead of her time in yesteryear : Geraldine Pierce Zimmerman comes of age in a Southern African American family /

Born into a relatively privileged family, Geraldyne Pierce Zimmerman earned a reputation as a maverick in her lifelong home of Orangeburg, South Carolina, a semirural community where race and class were very much governed by the Jim Crow laws. Educated at Nashville & rsquo;s Fisk University, Zim...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mack-Williams, Kibibi, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Zimmerman, Geraldine Pierce, > 1911-
African American women > South Carolina > Orangeburg > Biography.
African Americans > South Carolina > Orangeburg > Biography.
Older people > South Carolina > Orangeburg > Biography.
African Americans > South Carolina > Orangeburg > Social conditions.
African American families > South Carolina > Orangeburg.
African American families > Case studies.
Intergenerational relations > United States > Case studies.
Noires américaines > Caroline du Sud > Orangeburg > Biographies.
Noirs américains > Caroline du Sud > Orangeburg > Biographies.
Personnes âgées > Caroline du Sud > Orangeburg > Biographies.
Noirs américains > Caroline du Sud > Orangeburg > Conditions sociales.
Familles noires américaines > Caroline du Sud > Orangeburg.
Familles noires américaines > Études de cas.
Relations entre générations > États-Unis > Études de cas.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
African American families.
African American women.
African Americans.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Intergenerational relations.
Older people.
Rural conditions.
Orangeburg (S.C.) > Biography.
Orangeburg (S.C.) > Rural conditions.
South Carolina > Orangeburg.
United States.
Biographies.
Case studies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Prologue; Chapter 1. Ancestors: The Pierces and Tatnalls, 1860s-1910; Chapter 2. Jello: The Girl, 1910-1929; Chapter 3. Gerry: The Young Adult, 1929-1933; Chapter 4. Gerry: The Mother, 1933-1960s; Conclusion; Epilogue: Mrs. Z: Lady Maverick, 1960s-2010; Appendix. Population Statistics: South Carolina and Orangeburg; Tatnall-Pierce-Zimmerman Family Tree; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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