Delta fragments : the recollections of a sharecropper's son / John Oliver Hodges.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hodges, John Oliver, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hodges, John Oliver, 1944---Childhood and youth.

Hodges, John Oliver.

Hodges, John Oliver, 1944-.

African Americans--Mississippi--Delta (Region)--Biography.

African Americans.

Delta (Miss. : Region)--Social conditions--20th century.

Delta (Miss. : Region).

Delta (Miss. : Region)--Biography.

Mississippi--Delta (Region).

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 228 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2013]

Contents:

Part I Learning

The Delta 1

The Wilsons 7

The Hodgeses 15

My Mother 21

My Sister 27

My Stepfather 33

Whittington Plantation 39

Settlement Time 45

One-Room Schoolhouse 51

G Street Boys 55

Schoolmates 61

My Teachers 65

Going to the 'House 71

Part II Reflecting

Delta Blues 79

Gambling on the River 87

Black Ways and Other Folkways 93

African Gods in Mississippi 101

A Delta Revival 105

The Black Church 119

The Black Preacher 125

The Folk Sermon 131

Is God Good? 139

The Color Line 145

Emmett Till 153

Ruleville Revisited: Reflections Fifty Years After Marius 159

Civil Rights 167

Medgar 175

1963 181

Endesha: A New Walk for Freedom 187

Whites in the Struggle 191

Reunion as Pilgrimage 197.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and index.

ISBN:

9781572335707

157233570X

OCLC:

822028637