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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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Biography, African Americans, African American women, Childhood and youth, Segregation, African americans, texas, African americans, segregation, Texas, biographyPeople
Sunny Nash (1949-)Places
Bryan, Texas, Bryan (Tex.)Times
1950s 1960sShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Bigmama didn't shop at Woolworth's
1996, Texas A&M University Press
in English
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0890967164 9780890967164
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April 28, 2011 | Edited by OCLC Bot | Added OCLC numbers. |
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