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Remnants : a memoir of spirit, activism, and mothering / Rosemarie Freeney Harding, with Rachel Elizabeth Harding.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freeney Harding, Rosemarie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Freeney Harding, Rosemarie.
- African American scholars--Biography.
- African American scholars.
- African American civil rights workers--Biography.
- African American civil rights workers.
- Mennonite women--Biography.
- Mennonite women.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div><I>Remnants</I> is the spiritual memoir of Civil Rights Movement activist Rosemarie Freeney Harding. She was a religious woman whose spirituality blended several religious practices. Following her death in 2004, her daughter Rachel finished her memoir, recorded interviews, her mother's journal entries, poems, previously published essays, and a lifetime of conversations.<BR></div>
- Contents:
- Daughter's précis / by Rachel E. Harding
- (The light)
- Ground
- Rye's rites (poem)
- Grandma rye
- There was a tree in Starkville
- Daddy's mark
- Joe Daniels: getting unruly
- The side of the road
- Papa's girl
- North
- Snow and spring in Woodlawn
- Shirley Darden
- Brother Bud's death
- Death, dreams, and secrecy: things we carried
- Seasons
- Elegant cousins and original beauty
- Warmth
- Altgeld gardens
- Hot rolls (short fiction)
- Looking for work
- The nursing test
- In loco parentis (short fiction)
- Mama Freeney and the haints
- Height
- South
- Hospitality, haints, and healing: African American indigenous
- Religion and activism
- Mennonite house in Atlanta
- The next-door neighbor
- Traveling for the movement
- Koinonia farm: cultivating conviction
- A radical compassion: his holiness the Dalai Lama, Clarence Jordan and Marion King-Jackson
- A song in the time of dying: a memory of Bernice Johnson Reagon
- The blood house (a story outline)
- Spirit and struggle: the mysticism of the movement
- The Dharamsala notebook
- Sunrise after Delhi (poem)
- The Dharamsala notebook I
- The Dharamsala notebook II
- Bunting
- The bunting
- The workshops and retreats: ritual, remembering, and medicine
- The Pachamama circle
- Pachamama circle I: Rachel's dream
- Pachamama circle II: Sue Bailey Thurman and the Harriets
- Pachamama circle III: a choreography of mothering
- Mama and the gods
- Fugida: poem for Oyá
- Class visits: love, white southerners, and black exceptionalism
- A little wind
- (The call)
- Rosemarie's genealogies.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8223-5879-4
- OCLC:
- 1141501156
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