Killers of the dream.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 1949
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: African Americans -- Southern States; Southern States -- Social conditions
Description: In this autobiographical work, the author draws on memories of her childhood to describe the psychological costs of the contradictory rules in Southern Society about sin, sex and segregation. She cites the evils of segregation for both white and colored people and gives the history of race relations from pre-Civil War days.