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Title Stories from the heart : Missouri's African American heritage / collected and told by Gladys Caines Coggswell
Published Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 141 pages) : illustrations
Series Missouri heritage readers
Missouri heritage readers.
Contents Foreword by Lisa L. Higgins; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Family Stories; 1. Finding Frankford -- Mrs. Marie Campbell -- Rev. Faye Vaughn -- Mrs. Camie Doolin; 2. Getting to Know Hannibal -- Mrs. Dorine Ambers -- Mrs. Lillian Jones -- Mrs. Louise Williams -- Angela Williams; 3. Bowling Green -- Mr. Jerry Grimmett; 4. St. Louis Eldertellers -- Mrs. Catherine Clemmons -- Mrs. Icey Gardner -- Mrs. Mildred Grice -- Carole Shelton -- Mettazee Morris; 5. I n the Bootheel -- Evelyn Pulliam -- Loretta Washington; 6. Country Schools, City Schools -- Loretta Washington -- Marlene Rhodes
7. Why We Tell Stories -- Tracy Milsap Coggswell Family Stories8. Change and Continuity in Missouri Storytelling; Epilogue; For More Reading; Index; About the Author
Summary "A collection of African American family stories and traditional tales, compiled and brought to print by a master storyteller as she visited Missouri communities and participated in storytelling events over the last two decades"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-134) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject African Americans -- Missouri -- Folklore
African Americans -- Missouri -- Social life and customs
Tales -- Missouri
Oral tradition -- Missouri
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
African Americans
African Americans -- Social life and customs
Manners and customs
Oral tradition
Tales
SUBJECT Missouri -- Social life and customs
Subject Missouri
Genre/Form Folklore
Form Electronic book
Author Caines Coggswell, Gladys
LC no. 2009008543
ISBN 9780826271839
0826271839
082621844X
9780826218445