Mama's window
By: by Lynn Rubright ; afterword by Patricia C. McKissack ; illustrated by Duane Smith.
Contributors: Smith, Duane, 1974- ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Glass painting and staining -- Fiction.; Church buildings -- Fiction.; Grief -- Fiction.; Orphans -- Fiction.; Uncles -- Fiction.; African Americans -- Fiction.; Mississippi River -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.; Mississippi -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: His dying mother's insistence leads an eleven-year-old black child to be raised by his disabled uncle, in the swamps of the Mississipi Delta in the early 1900s, and to recall her tireless work to fund a stained glass window for her church.
Notes: Very loosely based on a childhood incident in the life of the Reverend Owen Whitfield, an African American sharecropper and minister who was vice-president of the integrated Southern Tenant Farmer's Union in Arkansas in the 1930s.