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Middle Georgia and the approach of modernity : essays on race, culture and daily life, 1885/1945 / edited by Fred R. van Hartesveldt.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women.
- History.
- African Americans.
- Social conditions.
- Georgia--History.
- Georgia.
- Georgia--Social conditions.
- Georgia--In literature.
- African Americans--Georgia--History.
- Women--Georgia--History.
- Women--Georgia--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 189 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
- Summary:
- "This collection of new essays describes the lives of the common people of the day. A grisly mass murder underscored issues of race, class and poverty. African Americans struggled for self-betterment against the rise of Jim Crow. Women striving to overcome gender barriers found a hero in a pioneering Georgian female pilot."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Woolfolk murders, 1887: adjusting one race myth / Chrissy Lutz
- Otis O'Neal, the Ham and egg show and Georgia's African American farmers: the first two decades (1915/1935) / Dawn J. Herd-Clark and Kyle Harris
- Pestilence in the mid state: the influenza pandemic of 1918/1919 in middle Georgia / Fred R. van Hartesveldt
- "Georgia on my mind": Jean Toomer's portrait of middle Georgia women in Cane / Washella Turner Simmons
- Packing peppers at Pomona: the pimiento pepper industry in middle Georgia, 1911/1955 / Helen L. Brackett
- Hundred dozen eggs: Margaret Toomer and the Ham and egg show / Dawn J. Herd-Clark and Kymara D. Sneed
- Becoming a middle Georgia writer: rethinking the influence of Carson McCullers and Erskine Caldwell
- On Flannery O'connor / Marshall Bruce Gentry
- Flying high in Griffin: Charlotte Frye takes to the skies / Helen L. Brackett
- Pine Mountain Valley: A New Deal experiment in community building / Kathryn W. Kemp
- With us, not for us: a history of library services to African Americans in Macon, Georgia, 1881/1970 / Shaundra Walker.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781476666907
- 1476666903
- OCLC:
- 1005195383
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