Tales and Tombstones of Sunset Cemetery - Tracing Lives and Memorial Customs in a Southern Graveyard (Paperback)

This book relates the stories and describes the memorials of the people buried in Shelby, North Carolina's historic Sunset Cemetery, a microcosm of the Southeastern United States. The authors, an academic and a journalist, detail the lives and memories of people who are buried here, from Civil War soldiers to those who created the Jim Crow South and promoted the narrative of the Lost Cause. Featured are authors W.J. Cash and Thomas Dixon, whose racist novel was the basis for The Birth of a Nation. Drawn from historical research and local memory, it includes the tales of musicians Don Gibson and Bobby "Pepper Head" London, as well as a paratrooper who died in the Battle of the Bulge and other ordinary folks who rest in the cemetery. A bigger responsibility is to give a voice to the silenced, enslaved people of color buried in unmarked graves. Cemeteries are sacred places where artistry and memory meet-to understand, we need both the tales and the tombstones.

General

Imprint:	McFarland & Company
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2021
Authors:	June Hadden Hobbs • Joe DePriest • Hal Bryant
Dimensions:	254 x 178mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	141
ISBN-13:	978-1-4766-8638-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Death & dying > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	1-4766-8638-6
Barcode:	9781476686387

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