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Praying for sheetrock : a work of nonfiction / Melissa Fay Greene.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection HN79.G42 M354 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greene, Melissa Fay
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poppell, Thomas Hardwick.
- McIntosh County (Ga.)--Social conditions.
- McIntosh County (Ga.).
- McIntosh County (Ga.)--Politics and government.
- Political corruption--Georgia--McIntosh County--History--20th century.
- Political corruption.
- McIntosh County (Ga.)--Race relations.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Georgia--McIntosh County--History--20th century.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Police corruption--Georgia--McIntosh County--History--20th century.
- Police corruption.
- Sheriffs--Georgia--McIntosh County--Biography.
- Sheriffs.
- Politics and government.
- Race relations.
- Social conditions.
- Georgia--McIntosh County.
- Book clubs (Discussion groups)--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Book clubs (Discussion groups).
- Genre:
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- History
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 335 pages : map ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Da Capo Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Da Capo Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- An inspiring and absorbing account of the struggle for human dignity and racial equality (Coretta Scott King)
- Describes how the police shooting of an unarmed black man inspired Thurnell Alston, an unemployed father of four, to protest and ultimately change his corner of the rural South.
- Contents:
- The old way
- Off the road and far from money
- The education of Thurnell Alston
- "Howdy folks, this is your lucky day"
- Deacon Curry, Deacon Thorpe, and the little deputies
- Praying for Sheetrock
- Shoot a man in broad daylight?
- The three musketeers
- Circuit riding into the past
- The White Boys' Bible
- The boycott
- "Got to go vote for my little Thurnell"
- The old fox gets away again
- Commissioner Alston
- "Through the ocean of the sea for her child"
- The music man
- "Head in the lion's mouth, got to ease it out."
- Notes:
- Includes a reader's guide.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780306815171
- 0306815176
- OCLC:
- 72678151
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