Research Catalog

Such as us : Southern voices of the thirties

Title
Such as us : Southern voices of the thirties / edited by Tom E. Terrill, Jerrold Hirsch.
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1978.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Request for On-site UseRequest Scan
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?
TextUse in library HN79.A13S87Off-site

Details

Additional Authors
  • Terrill, Tom E.
  • Hirsch, Jerrold, 1948-
Description
xxvi, 302 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Offers a look at life in the American South before World War II. People talk about family life, religion, sex roles, being poor and getting old. They also describe how such events as the Civil War, Emancipation, World War I, the Depression and the New Deal affected them.
Subject
  • Social conditions
  • Sociale structuur
  • Southern States > Social conditions > Case studies
  • Southern States
  • Southern States > Social conditions
Genre/Form
  • Case studies
  • Case studies.
  • Études de cas.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 289-295.
Contents
Talking is my life / James Aswell -- Like a shadow that declineth / Ruth Clark, James Aswell -- I'se still traveling 'cause I got faith in God / Geneva Tonsill -- No stick-leg / Bernice Kelly Harris -- Horse trader / Harry H. Fain -- Ain't got no screens / Walter Rowland -- Jim Jeffcoat / William O. Foster -- The landlord has his troubles ; Jackson Bullitt, a small landlord / Bernice Kelly Harris -- In Abraham's bosom / F. Donald Atwell -- Aaron and Mary Matthews / Bernice Kelly Harris -- 'Backer barning / Mary A. Hicks, Edwin Massingill -- Tobacco's in my blood / Mary A. Hicks -- A day on the farm / attributed to Gertha Couric -- Just a plain two-horse farm / Bernice Kelly Harris -- From the mountains faring / Dean Newman, Jennette Edwards, James Aswell -- Green fields far away / N.S. McDonald -- A day on Factory Hill / Ida L. Moore -- A retired mill worker / Sadie B. Hornsby -- There's always a Judas ; When a man believes ; No union for me / Ida L. Moore -- The rig-builder / Attributed to Ned T. DeWitt -- A woman's like a dumb animal / Jack Kytle -- My WPA man / Robert McKinney -- Chimney sweeper's holiday / Robert McKinney -- Yes, Lord, I'se done tried to serve you faithful / Grace McCune, Sarah H. Hall, John N. Booth -- Tech 'er off, Charlie / Author unknown -- Roger T. Stevenson, Justice of the Peace ; Sam sets it down / Bernice Kelly Harris.
ISBN
  • 0807813184
  • 9780807813188
LCCN
77014248
OCLC
  • ocm03240017
  • 3240017
  • SCSB-108663
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library