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Leaving Pipe Shop : memories of kin / Deborah E. McDowell.

Title
Leaving Pipe Shop : memories of kin / Deborah E. McDowell.
Author
McDowell, Deborah E., 1951-
Publication
New York : Scribner, c1996.

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285 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Summary
In the illuminating language of memory, Deborah McDowell tells the story of her family, living a segregated life in Bessemer, Alabama, where her father worked at U.S. Foundry and Pipe, nicknamed Pipe Shop. Through the intimate details of their daily lives, she shows us how civil rights affected a working-class town, among three generations of women and men. McDowell movingly uncovers a world rarely portrayed, where she was raised to love the sounds and meanings of words and to value a place and culture that has passed.
Subject
  • McDowell, Deborah E., 1951- > Childhood and youth
  • McDowell family
  • African American women > Bessemer > Biography
  • African Americans > Bessemer > Biography
  • African Americans > Bessemer > Social life and customs
  • Bessemer (Ala.) > Biography
Genre/Form
Biographies
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
0684814498 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^96048173^
OCLC
  • 35835782
  • SCSB-11287368
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library