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Author Stimpson, eddie

Title My Remembers : a Black Sharecroppers's Recollections of the Depression
Published Denton : University of North Texas Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (190 pages)
Summary ""I grow up a dirt farmer and retired a dirt farmer. Never got rich and didn't want to be. My childhood stomping ground is now concrete, stores and houses. I remember the good times and bad. It was not the money we made but how to stretch that last dime. It was not the wind, rain or snow. It was about the love that flow. It was not the hot sunshine nor the clouds that hung low. It was the grace of God that help us swang that hoe. I want my grandchildren to understand. My grands, your grands and their grands."" In 1929, near Plano, Texas, Eddie Stimpson, Jr., weighing 15-1/2 pounds, was born t
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Subject Stimpson, Eddie, 1929-
SUBJECT Stimpson, Eddie, 1929- fast
Subject African Americans -- Texas -- Plano Region -- Biography
Sharecroppers -- Texas -- Plano Region -- Biography
Depressions -- 1929 -- Texas -- Plano Region
Farm life -- Texas -- Plano Region -- History -- 20th century
African Americans
Depressions
Farm life
Sharecroppers
Social conditions
SUBJECT Plano Region (Tex.) -- Social conditions
Subject Texas -- Plano Region
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
Author Byrd, James W
ISBN 9781574414899
1574414895