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Just plain folks / by Lorraine Johnson-Coleman.
Van Pelt Library PS3560.O38685 J87 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson-Coleman, Lorraine, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans.
- Rural conditions.
- Manners and customs.
- North Carolina--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- North Carolina.
- North Carolina--Rural conditions--Fiction.
- African Americans--North Carolina--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 165 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, South Carolina : Published by Summerhouse Press, 1997.
- Contents:
- Kinfolks. Journey's Home. Call Me by My Name. Sorrow's Kitchen. The Freedom Garden
- Homefolks. Worser Days and Better Times. One of the Homegrown Angels. Gettin' Ready. Three Sixes. Nobody's Chile
- Women and Men Folks. Hitched. Sister Sophie and Her Homegrown Wisdom. Miz Lullabel, The Devil and the Sunday Hat. Lost Love, Last Love
- White Folks. White Folks. Hagar's Children. Sara's Precious Babies. And the People of a Town. The Colored Water Fountain
- Church Folks. Sister Mabel. Brother Jake. Mister Jim. The Reverend.
- Notes:
- 'Original tales of living, loving, longing, and learning as told by a perfectly ordinary, quite commonly sensible, and absolutely awe-inspiring, colored woman."--Title page.
- "Cover Art: Quilting Time, 1995 by Jonathan Green."
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 1887714146
- OCLC:
- 37492279
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