Just plain folks / by Lorraine Johnson-Coleman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson-Coleman, Lorraine, 1962-

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

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