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Star Creek Papers

Adam Fairclough, Horace Mann Bond, Julia W. Bond, Julian Bond
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      The Star Creek Papers is the never-before-published account of the complex realities of race relations in the rural South in the 1930s.When Horace and Julia Bond moved to Louisiana in 1934, they entered a world where the legacy of slavery was miscegenation, lingering paternalism, and deadly racism. The Bonds were a young, well-educated and idealistic African American couple working for the Rosenwald Fund, a trust established by a northern philanthropist to build schools in rural areas. They were part of the "Explorer Project" sent to investigate the progress of the school in the Star Creek district of Washington Parish. Their report, which decried the teachers' lack of experience, the poor quality of the coursework, and the students' chronic absenteeism, was based on their private journal, "The Star Creek Diary," a shrewdly observed, sharply etched, and affectionate portrait of a rural black community.Horace Bond was moved to write a seco
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Adam Fairclough, Horace Mann Bond, Julia W. Bond, Julian Bond EAN: 9780820340838 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 20 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of Georgia Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-12-01 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Ethnic studies, History of the Americas

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      ADAM FAIRCLOUGH is the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Chair of History and Culture of the United States at Leiden University. His books include Martin Luther King Jr., To Redeem the Soul of America, Race and Democracy, and The Star Creek Papers (all Georgia).
      The Star Creek Papers is the never-before-published account of the complex realities of race relations in the rural South in the 1930s.When Horace and Julia Bond moved to Louisiana in 1934, they entered a world where the legacy of slavery was miscegenation, lingering paternalism, and deadly racism. The Bonds were a young, well-educated and idealistic African American couple working for the Rosenwald Fund, a trust established by a northern philanthropist to build schools in rural areas. They were part of the "Explorer Project" sent to investigate the progress of the school in the Star Creek district of Washington Parish. Their report, which decried the teachers' lack of experience, the poor quality of the coursework, and the students' chronic absenteeism, was based on their private journal, "The Star Creek Diary," a shrewdly observed, sharply etched, and affectionate portrait of a rural black community.Horace Bond was moved to write a seco
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Adam Fairclough, Horace Mann Bond, Julia W. Bond, Julian Bond EAN: 9780820340838 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 20 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of Georgia Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2011-12-01 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Ethnic studies, History of the Americas

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      ADAM FAIRCLOUGH is the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Chair of History and Culture of the United States at Leiden University. His books include Martin Luther King Jr., To Redeem the Soul of America, Race and Democracy, and The Star Creek Papers (all Georgia).

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