Research Catalog

Title

A boy from Georgia [electronic resource] : coming of age in the segregated South / Hamilton Jordan ; edited by Kathleen Jordan ; additional editing and research by Hamilton Jordan Jr. ; foreword by President Jimmy Carter.

Author

Jordan, Hamilton.

Publication

Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, [2015]

Details

Additional Authors

Jordan, Kathleen.

Description

1 online resource (xiii, 228 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates)

Uniform Title

Boy from Georgia (Online)

Alternative Title

Boy from Georgia (Online)

Subject

• Jordan, Hamilton > Childhood and youth
• Jordan, Hamilton > Family
• Politicians > Georgia > Biography
• Albany (Ga.) > Social life and customs > 20th century
• United States > Race relations > History > 20th century > Anecdotes
• Albany (Ga.) > Biography

Note

• Includes index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

An Albany childhood -- Lexington ways -- Aw-ben-ny -- Politics in my blood -- The facts of life -- Fear and the fifties -- Are the Russians coming? -- The real terror -- Uncle Frank's shelter -- Growing up: before the deluge -- Albany High -- Meet the Gottheimers -- Overcoming the past -- Two, four, six, eight, we don't want to integrate -- Washington, the first time around, 1963 -- Vertical engineer -- The March on Washington, August 1963 -- Uncle Clarence -- The Man from Plains -- Afterword from the editor.

LCCN

2015013484

OCLC

ssj0001554797

Author

Jordan, Hamilton.

Title

A boy from Georgia [electronic resource] : coming of age in the segregated South / Hamilton Jordan ; edited by Kathleen Jordan ; additional editing and research by Hamilton Jordan Jr. ; foreword by President Jimmy Carter.

Imprint

Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, [2015]

Edition

First edition.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card

Available onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Jordan, Kathleen.