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His dying mother's insistence leads an eleven-year-old black child to be raised by his disabled uncle, in the swamps of the Mississipi Delta in the early 1900s, and to recall her tireless work to fund a stained glass window for her church.
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Fiction, History, Church buildings, Uncles, Orphans, Grief, Glass painting and staining, African Americans, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Church buildings, fiction, Grief, fiction, Orphans, fiction, African americans, fiction, Mississippi, fictionPlaces
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Very loosely based on a childhood incident in the life of the Reverend Owen Whitfield, an African American sharecropper and minister who was vice-president of the integrated Southern Tenant Farmer's Union in Arkansas in the 1930s.
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