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Language
English
Description
Presents the story of a spirited and gifted, but poor, black girl growing up in the South in the 1930's. Tells how she came into her own, experiencing prejudice, family difficulties, and a relationship with a teacher who taught her to respect books, learning, and herself.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1952 eleven-year-old Azalea is sent to Paris Junction, Arkansas, to help out her grandmother who has injured her foot, but does not really seem to want her help; Billy Wong is a Chinese-American boy whose uncle owns the local grocery store, in town to attend the "white" school, since the Chinese mission school has closed, but frustrated by the overt prejudice of the local children--and over the summer the two begin to forge a friendship.
11) It's all done gone: Arkansas photographs from the Farm Security Administration collection, 1935-1943
Author
Publisher
The University of Arkansas Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xv, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xii, 268 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the first book-length study of Arkansas slavery in more than sixty years, A Weary Land offers a glimpses of enslaved life on the South's western margins, focusing on the intersections of land use and agriculture within the daily life and work of bonded Black Arkansans. As they cleared trees, cultivated crops, and tended livestock on the southern frontier, Arkansans's enslaved farmers connected culture and nature, creating their own meanings of...
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