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For the ancestors : autobiographical memories / Bessie Jones ; collected and edited by John Stewart.

Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML420.J75 A3 1983
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LIBRA - Rare ML420.J75 A3 1983 Banks copy
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Jones, Bessie, 1902-1984.
Contributor:
Stewart, John, 1933- editor.
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Jones, Bessie, 1902-1984.
Jones, Bessie.
Singers--United States--Biography.
Singers.
United States.
Genre:
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Penn Provenance:
Banks, Joanna (donor) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
xxv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 203 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1983.
Contents:
Some Folks Try, Others Won't
What You Want, What You Get
Frolics and a Picture
More than Games
Sea and Lightning
Deep Water
The Lord Fixed It
Spiritual We Are.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-2020, discography (pages 202-203) and filmography (page 203).
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
Banks Collection copy has embossed stamp "JB Library of Joanna Banks".
ISBN:
0252009592
OCLC:
8475809

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