"The Star Creek Papers" is the never-before-published account of
the complex realities of race relations in the rural South in the
1930s.
When Horace and Julia Bond moved to Louisiana in 1934, they
entered a world where the legacy of slavery was miscegenation,
lingering paternalism, and deadly racism. The Bonds were a young,
well-educated and idealistic African American couple working for
the Rosenwald Fund, a trust established by a northern
philanthropist to build schools in rural areas. They were part of
the "Explorer Project" sent to investigate the progress of the
school in the Star Creek district of Washington Parish. Their
report, which decried the teachers' lack of experience, the poor
quality of the coursework, and the students' chronic absenteeism,
was based on their private journal, "The Star Creek Diary," a
shrewdly observed, sharply etched, and affectionate portrait of a
rural black community.
Horace Bond was moved to write a second document, "Forty Acres
and a Mule," a history of a black farming family, after Jerome
Wilson was lynched in 1935. The Wilsons were thrifty landowners
whom Bond knew and respected; he intended to turn their story into
a book, but the chronicle remained unfinished at his death. These
important primary documents were rediscovered by civil rights
scholar Adam Fairclough, who edited them with Julia Bond's
support.
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