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The last children of Mill Creek
- Title
- The last children of Mill Creek / Vivian Gibson.
- Author
- Gibson, Vivian
- Publication
- Cleveland, Ohio : Belt Publishing, 2020.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Belt Publishing, publisher.
- Description
- 145 pages : 1 illustration; 19 cm
- Summary
- "Vivian Gibson grew up in Mill Creek Valley, a segregated working-class neighborhood of St. Louis that was razed in 1959 to build a highway, an act of racism disguised under urban renewal as 'progress." The three rooms of her childhood home were heated by a wood-burning stove; her family had no hot water or furnace, but what Gibson lacked in material comforts she made up for in imagination. A moving memoir of family life at a time very different from the present, The Last Children of Mill Creek chronicles the everyday lived experiences of Gibson's large family--her seven siblings, her crafty, college-educated mother, and her hard-working father--and the friends, shop owners, church ladies, teachers, and others who made Mill Creek into a warm, tight-knit African-American community. In Gibson's words, "This memoir is about survival, as told from the viewpoint of a watchful young girl -- a collection of decidedly universal stories that chronicle the extraordinary lives of ordinary people.""--Back cover.
- Subject
- Gibson, Vivian
- 1900-1999
- African American women > Missouri > Saint Louis > Biography
- African American neighborhoods > Missouri > Saint Louis > History > 20th century
- African Americans > Segregation > Missouri > Saint Louis
- Urban renewal > Missouri > Saint Louis
- Race discrimination > Missouri > Saint Louis
- African Americans > Missouri > Saint Louis > Social conditions > 20th century
- African American families > Missouri > Saint Louis > Social conditions > 20th century
- African American neighborhoods
- African American families > Social conditions
- African American women
- African Americans > Segregation
- African Americans > Social conditions
- Race discrimination
- Urban renewal
- Mill Creek Valley (Saint Louis, Mo.) > History
- Missouri > Saint Louis
- Missouri > Saint Louis > Mill Creek Valley
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Call Number
- Sc C 21-48
- ISBN
- 1948742640
- 9781948742641
- OCLC
- 1112275988
- Author
- Gibson, Vivian, author.
- Title
- The last children of Mill Creek / Vivian Gibson.
- Publisher
- Cleveland, Ohio : Belt Publishing, 2020.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Belt Publishing, publisher.
- Research Call Number
- Sc C 21-48