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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Star Creek Papers (Paperback)
Adam Fairclough; Horace Mann Bond, Julia W. Bond; Foreword by Julian Bond
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R802
Discovery Miles 8 020
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"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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