Title: Delta fragments
Description: "The son of black sharecroppers, John Oliver Hodges attended segregated schools in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the 1950s and '60s, worked in plantation cotton fields, and eventually left the region to earn multiple degrees and become a tenured university professor. Delta Fragments is Hodges's autobiographical journey back to the land of his birth. Brimming with vivid memories of family life, childhood friendships, the quest for knowledge, and the often brutal injustices of the Jim Crow South, it also offers an insightful meditation on the present state of race relations in America."--page [4] of cover.
Subjects: Social conditions, African Americans, Childhood and youth, Biography, African americans, biography, Delta (miss. : region), Mississippi, biography, Mississippi, social conditions
Places: Delta (Miss. : Region), Mississippi, Delta (Region)
People: John Oliver Hodges (1944-)
Time periods: 20th century