On the move : a Black family's Western saga / S.R. Martin Jr. ; foreword by Albert S. Broussard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin, S. R. (Sennie Rudolph), 1935-

Series:

Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 32.

Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Martin, S. R. (Sennie Rudolph), 1935---Family.

Martin, S. R.

Martin family.

Field family.

Hall family.

Martin, S. R. (Sennie Rudolph), 1935-.

African Americans--West (U.S.)--Biography.

African Americans.

Families.

West (U.S.)--Biography.

West (U.S.).

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 195 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2009]

Summary:

"On the Move is a valuable book. It contributes to filling a deep lacuna in both our general historical and our scholarly knowledge. . . . opens an unusually illuminating perspective... made possible by the breadth of Martin's scholarship and the depth of his humanity. This work is history, anthropology, sociology, religious, and American studies, [and] it is also very personal. It took a lot of courage to write this book: first, the courage to look, then the courage to say. Let us hope it leads others to follow in Dr. Martin's footsteps to the shining sea."

Contents:

Foreword / by Albert S. Broussard

Acknowledgments

Part 1. Roots and branches. What I've done here: introductory remarks

How did I end up here?

Home

Old folks

S.R., Primrose, and good religion

Fort Worth: in town

Part 2. On the move. Fort Worth: moving West

Cody, Wyoming: becoming westerners

Billings, Montana: escape from Cody

To the blue Pacific: San Francisco

Part 3. Home. From the Golden Gate to the Monterey Bay: powerful influences

In the West

Appendix: toward a genealogy

Notes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-184) and index.

ISBN:

9781603441049

1603441042

OCLC:

243845335