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A moving personal memoir of Mississippi in the 1920s and the bitter harvest of racial repression. As the story opens, six-year-old Buster Briggs boards a Pullman car headed south over the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and we embark with him on what will become his journey from childhood into ad...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Briggs, Wallace Neal, 1915-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 1992.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Briggs, Wallace Neal, > 1915-
Briggs, Wallace Neal, > 1915- > Childhood and youth.
Vacations.
Manners and customs.
Country life.
FICTION > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Country life > Mississippi.
Vacations > Mississippi.
Mississippi.
Mississippi > Moeurs et coutumes.
Mississippi > Biographies.
Mississippi > Social life and customs.
Mississippi > Biography.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:A moving personal memoir of Mississippi in the 1920s and the bitter harvest of racial repression. As the story opens, six-year-old Buster Briggs boards a Pullman car headed south over the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and we embark with him on what will become his journey from childhood into adolescence. Bus Briggs is a white boy from Indiana who spends his summers and Christmases at his grandparents' Mississippi homeplace -- Riverside. Travel with him on this journey of discovery. Join Bus and his cousins as they string popcorn and chinaberries for the yule tree, savor ice cream made from.
Physical Description:1 online resource (248 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780813147789

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