On the land of my father : a farm upbringing in segregated Mississippi / Bevelyn Charlene Exposé.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781476613529 (e-book)
- Exposé, Bevelyn Charlene, 1939- -- Childhood and youth
- Exposé, Bevelyn Charlene, 1939- -- Family
- African American women -- Mississippi -- Sumrall -- Biography
- African Americans -- Mississippi -- Sumrall -- Biography
- African Americans -- Mississippi -- Sumrall -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Farm life -- Mississippi -- Sumrall
- Sumrall (Miss.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Sumrall (Miss.) -- Race relations
- 976.2/19063092 B 23
- F349.S95 E97 2014eb
Includes index.
On Papa's farm, in Mama's kitchen -- Our own coloring book -- Brothers and sisters -- Horse and buggy courtship -- Church going -- School days -- The family.
"This book evokes a time and place that no longer exists but which is central to the American experience. The main message is of how land ownership bonded a Negro family to its white neighbors in segregated southern Mississippi in the 1940s. Working the land was not all pain and hostility. "-- Provided by publisher.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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