An edition of Bigmama didn't shop at Woolworth's (1996)

Bigmama Didn't Shop At Woolworth's

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An edition of Bigmama didn't shop at Woolworth's (1996)

Bigmama Didn't Shop At Woolworth's

Not just because things cost more there than from the hawker who drove through the Candy Hill neighborhood from time to time, but because in the 1950s black shoppers were not very welcome in white Texas towns like Bryan. Sunny Nash was Bigmamma's granddaughter, and through her young eyes she saw not only the indignities and economic hardships her family and friends suffered - unpaved roads, mosquito-infested drainage ditches and outdoor toilets, back stairs to balcony seating in the movies - but also the love and warmth of everyday life in the segregated neighborhood. In the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird, yet more stirring because of its real-life perspective, she tells her story of a time before the civil rights movement of the 1960s with immediacy and poignancy.

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186

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Bigmama didn't shop at Woolworth's
1996, Texas A&M University Press
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Bigmama Didn't Shop At Woolworth's
Bigmama Didn't Shop At Woolworth's
1996, Texas A&M University Press

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First Sentence

"Despite the imagery suggested by the name Candy Hill, in the 1950s there was little that was sweet or playful about the maze of unpaved roads, narrow trails, and mosquito-infested drainage ditches that led to and from the neighborhood's rows of mostly shotgun houses with outdoor toilet."

Edition Notes

Published in
College Station Texas USA
Genre
memoir

Classifications

Library of Congress
F394.B94 N37 1996, F394.B94N37 1996

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22703966M
Internet Archive
bigmamadidntshop0000nash
ISBN 10
0890967164
LCCN
96014743
OCLC/WorldCat
34475077
Library Thing
1966270

Work Description

Description: Bigmamma Didn't Shop at Woolworth's. Not just because things cost more there than from the hawker who drove through the Candy Hill neighborhood from time to time, but because in the 1950s black shoppers were not very welcome in white Texas towns like Bryan. Sunny Nash was Bigmamma's granddaughter, and through her young eyes she saw not only the indignities and economic hardships her family and friends suffered - unpaved roads, mosquito-infested drainage ditches and outdoor toilets, back stairs to balcony seating in the movies - but also the love and warmth of everyday life in the segregated neighborhood. In the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird, yet more stirring because of its real-life perspective, she tells her story of a time before the civil rights movement of the 1960s with immediacy and poignancy.

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