Title: Remnants : a memoir of spirit, activism, and mothering /
Authors: Freeney Harding, Rosemarie; Harding, Rachel E., 1962-
Year: 2015
Subjects: Freeney Harding, Rosemarie; Freeney Harding, Rosemarie; African American scholars Biography.; African American civil rights workers Biography; Mennonite women Biography.; Civil rights movements United States History; African American civil rights workers; African American scholars; Civil rights movements; Mennonite women; United States
Abstract: An activist influential in the civil rights movement, Rosemarie Freeney Harding's spirituality blended many traditions, including southern African American mysticism, Anabaptist Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism, and Afro-Brazilian CandomblE. Remnants, a multigenre memoir, demonstrates how Freeney Harding's spiritual life and social justice activism were integral to the instincts of mothering, healing, and community-building. Following Freeney Harding's death in 2004, her daughter Rachel finished this decade-long collaboration, using recorded interviews, memories of her mother, and her mother's journal entries, fiction, and previously published essays.
Contents: Daughter's précis / by Rachel E. Harding -- (The light) -- Ground -- Rye's rites (poem) -- Grandma rye -- There was a tree in Starkville -- Daddy's mark -- Joe Daniels: getting unruly -- The side of the road -- Papa's girl -- North -- Snow and spring in Woodlawn -- Shirley Darden -- Brother Bud's death -- Death, dreams, and secrecy: things we carried -- Seasons -- Elegant cousins and original beauty -- Warmth -- Altgeld gardens -- Hot rolls (short fiction) -- Looking for work -- The nursing test -- In loco parentis (short fiction) -- Mama Freeney and the haints -- Height -- South -- Hospitality, haints, and healing: African American indigenous -- Religion and activism -- Mennonite house in Atlanta -- The next-door neighbor -- Traveling for the movement -- Koinonia farm: cultivating conviction -- A radical compassion: his holiness the Dalai Lama, Clarence Jordan and Marion King-Jackson -- A song in the time of dying: a memory of Bernice Johnson Reagon -- The blood house (a story outline) -- Spirit and struggle: the mysticism of the movement -- The Dharamsala notebook -- Sunrise after Delhi (poem) -- The Dharamsala notebook I -- The Dharamsala notebook II -- Bunting -- The bunting -- The workshops and retreats: ritual, remembering, and medicine -- The Pachamama circle -- Pachamama circle I: Rachel's dream -- Pachamama circle II: Sue Bailey Thurman and the Harriets -- Pachamama circle III: a choreography of mothering -- Mama and the gods -- Fugida: poem for Oyá -- Class visits: love, white southerners, and black exceptionalism -- A little wind -- (The call) -- Rosemarie's genealogies.