TELL US A STORY: An African American Family in the Heartland.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, (2000). SIGNED first edition - "Supplemented by recollections from the present era, this is a mosaic of African American autobiography and family history set in Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas from the 1920s through the 1950s. The author shares rural, family and community history through vignettes about the Motley family - stories that have been passed among family members for 50 years." While the core of this book is the family's oral history, the author also used county and state archives, newspaper accounts, plantation records and other public documents to tell the stories of her ancestors who were slaves. Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED and dated on the half title page. Author's business card laid in. 41 pp. ISBN: 0-809323141.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.