Title Delta fragments : the recollections of a sharecropper's son / John Oliver Hodges

Edition First edition Published Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 228 pages) : illustrations, map Contents Introduction -- Learning. The Delta ; The Wilsons ; The Hodgeses ; My Mother ; My Sister ; My Stepfather ; Whittington Plantation ; Settlement Time ; One-Room Schoolhouse ; G Street Boys ; Schoolmates ; My Teachers ; Going to the 'House -- Reflecting. Delta Blues ; Gambling on the River ; Black Ways and Other Folkways ; African Gods in Mississippi ; A Delta Revival ; The Black Church ; The Black Preacher ; The Folk Sermon ; Is God Good? ; The Color Line ; Emmett Till ; Ruleville Revisited: Reflections Fifty Years After Marius ; Civil Rights ; Medgar ; 1963 ; Endesha : A New Walk for Freedom ; Whites in the Struggle ; Reunion as Pilgrimage -- Epilogue : The Delta Then and Now -- Appendix 1 : Table of Black and White Persons in the Delta by Population, Education, and Income -- Appendix 2 : Reports Relating to 1962 Civil Rights Activities in Which Author Was Involved Summary The son of Black sharecroppers, the author attended segregated schools in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the 1950s and '60s, worked in plantation cotton fields, and eventually left the region to earn multiple degrees and become a tenured university professor. This is an autobiographical journey back to the land of his birth. Brimming with vivid memories of family life, childhood friendships, the quest for knowledge, and the often brutal injustices of the Jim Crow South, it also offers a meditation on the state of race relations in America Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and index Notes Print version record Subject Hodges, John Oliver, 1944- -- Childhood and youth SUBJECT Hodges, John Oliver, 1944- -- Childhood and youth Hodges, John Oliver, 1944- fast Subject African Americans -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- General. Childhood and youth of a person African Americans Social conditions SUBJECT Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Social conditions -- 20th century Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Biography Subject Mississippi -- Delta (Region) Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Biographies Autobiographies. Biographies. Autobiographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781621900337 1621900339

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