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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2018]
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.