Title: On the Land of My Father
Description: "This book evokes a time and place that no longer exists but which is central to the American experience. The main message is of how land ownership bonded a Negro family to its white neighbors in segregated southern Mississippi in the 1940s. Working the land was not all pain and hostility. "--
Subjects: Childhood and youth, African American women, Biography, African Americans, Social life and customs, Family, Farm life, Race relations, Mississippi, biography