Middle Georgia and the approach of modernity : essays on race, culture and daily life, 1885/1945 /
edited by Fred R. van Hartesveldt.
Bok Engelsk
| Medvirkende | Van Hartesveldt, Fred R., (editor of compilation.)
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| Utgitt | McFarland
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| Opplysninger | 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.. - "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 pioneering Georgian female pilot."--
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| ISBN | 1-4766-3192-1
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