num_pages: 338
description: "A a monumental social history...Through a combinaton of oral history and interpretive narrative, Greene has created a work of great drama, a chorus of voices that is both disturbing and inspiring."THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBESomehow, the sweeping changes of the civil rights movement had bypassed rural McIntosh County, Georgia. In the 1970s, the white sheriff there still wielded all power; he controlled everyone and everything. It took one uneducated, unemployed black man with a passion for justice to take him on and win, changing life in McIntosh County forever. PRAYING FOR SHEETROCK is about that one man, his victory and his utlimate fall from grace.
language: English
title: Praying for Sheetrock
titlecomplete: Praying for Sheetrock
genres: Historical, Social Issues, Memoir, Nonfiction, Adult, American History, Southern, Race, History, African American
ratings_count: 1472
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Ohioana Book Award
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Lillian Smith Book Award
publisher: Ballantine Books