Title: To be a man, Johnnie Wilson, Jr
First published: 2004
Description: “Johnnie Wilson’s oral history, lovingly assembled by Susan Rothenberg, provides windows into large segments of American life seldom so carefully recaptured: rural black America, baseball, the waterfront and, above all, family life in the early twentieth century. Wilson was an ‘ordinary’ decent, fascinating citizen whose story I found simply extraordinary.” Fay Vincent, former commissioner, Major League Baseball
Subjects: Biography, African Americans, Stevedores
Places: San Francisco, California, San Francisco (Calif.)
People: Johnnie Wilson
Time periods: 20th century America, Jim Crow south
LC classification: E185.97.W73 A3 2004