THE WORLD OF PATIENCE GROMES: Making and Unmaking a Black…

THE WORLD OF PATIENCE GROMES: Making and Unmaking a Black Community. by Davis, Scott C. < >

THE WORLD OF PATIENCE GROMES: Making and Unmaking a Black Community.

Edition: First printing.

Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - The history of 60 years of the black community in Fulton, Virginia, and especially of the people in that community - children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of slaves, hard-working, thrifty and proud. The author was sent to this town in the early 70's as a community service worker, and in this book he recounts the ways in which urban renewal destroyed this community. Bibliography. 222 pages. ISBN: 0-8131-16449.

Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (spine of dj faded.)

Book ID: 21415
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