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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.
- African Americans--West (U.S.)--Biography.
- African Americans.
- West (U.S.)--Biography.
- West (U.S.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (212 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In distinctive, engaging prose, S. R. Martin Jr. crafts the story of his forebears and their westward journey, begun even before the great black migration that occurred around the two world wars. By narrating the struggles and triumphs of his family--both paternal and maternal--during their move west, he illuminates an under-studied facet of African American history. As Martin explains it, he and his brother "arrived on the scene at the confluence of these family streams in time to catch a ride to the shining sea." Students, scholars, and interested general readers of modern African American history and sociology will be greatly rewarded by reading this warm and vivid personal and family memoir.
- 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
- Billings, Montana
- To the blue Pacific
- Part 3. Home
- From the Golden Gate to the Monterey Bay
- In the West
- Appendix: toward a genealogy
- Notes
- Sources
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-60344-354-1
- OCLC:
- 680622471
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