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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hodges, John Oliver, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

African Americans.

Delta (Miss. : Region)--Biography.

Delta (Miss. : Region).

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

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

Hodges, John Oliver.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The son of black sharecroppers, John Oliver Hodges attended segregated schools in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the 1950s and '60s, worked in plantation cotton fields, and eventually left the region to earn multiple degrees and become a tenured university professor. Both poignant and thought provoking, Delta Fragments is Hodges's autobiographical journey back to the land of his birth. Brimming with vivid memories of family life, childhood friendships, the quest for knowledge, and the often brutal injustices of the Jim Crow South, it also offers an insightful meditation on the present state

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Learning; The Delta; The Wilsons; The Hodgeses; My Mother; My Sister; My Stepfather; Whittington Plantation; Settlement Time; One-Room Schoolhouse; G Street Boys; Schoolmates; My Teachers; Going to the 'House; Part II: Reflecting; Delta Blues; Gambling on the River; Black Ways and Other Folkways; African Gods in Mississippi; A Delta Revival; The Black Church; The Black Preacher; The Folk Sermon; Is God Good?; The Color Line; Emmett Till; Ruleville Revisited: Reflections Fifty Years After Marius; Civil Rights; Medgar; 1963

Endesha: A New Walk for FreedomWhites in the Struggle; Reunion as Pilgrimage; Epilogue: The Delta Then and Now; Appendix 1: Table of Black and White Persons in theDelta by Population, Education, and Income; Appendix 2: Reports Relating to 1962 Civil RightsActivities in Which Author Was Involved; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

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

ISBN:

9781621900337

1621900339

OCLC:

856870089