The Garretts of Columbia : A Black South Carolina Family from Slavery to the Dawn of Integration / David Nicholson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nicholson, David, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Garrett family.

Nicholson, David, 1951---Family.

Nicholson, David.

African American families--South Carolina--Columbia--History.

African American families.

Columbia (S.C.)--History.

Columbia (S.C.).

Genre:

Family histories.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Black South Carolina family from slavery to the dawn of integration

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2024]

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

"A writer in search of his roots discovers stories of African American struggle, sacrifice, and achievement. In The Garretts of Columbia, author David Nicholson tells a multigenerational story of Black hope and resilience. Carefully researched and beautifully written, The Garretts of Columbia engages readers with stories of a family whose members believed in the possibility of America. Nicholson relates the sacrifices, defeats, and affirming victories of a cohort of stalwart men and women who embraced education, fought for their country, and asserted their dignity in the face of a society that denied their humanity and discounted their abilities. The letters of Anna Maria 'Mama' Threewitts Garrett, along with other archival sources and family stories passed down through generations, provided the framework that allowed Nicholson to trace his family's deep history, and with it a story about Black life in segregated Columbia, SC, from the years after the Civil War to World War II"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Confessions of a Weary Integrationist

The African

Transcription of Dublin Hunter's Manumission Document

Mr. Washington Comes to Columbia

Finding Papa

"Tell Them We Are Rising"

Papa Returns to Columbia

The Light

Martha's Trials

"For Editor of the A. M. E. Church Review"

Change and the Great War

Patriotism at Home

Mama Comes into Her Own

"We Are as Well as Common"

The Editor and the Bishop, 1917-25

Beginnings and Departures

Papa Returns to Allen

Tap's Almost Success

Mills

Fiftieth Anniversary and Nearing the End

Mills in Haiti

Mills Returns to America

Death and Funerals

And Their Children after Them

They, Too, Sang America.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Nicholson, David The Garretts of Columbia

ISBN:

9781643364551

1643364553

OCLC:

1390748143