Civil Rights Childhood
Two voices blend in this poignant memoir from the Civil Rights era in Mississippi--a father''s and a daughter''s. He was Andrew L. Jordan, a son in a dirt-poor family of sharecroppers near Greenwood. Jordana Shakoor is his little girl who grew up to write this book. In her southern childhood she is just becoming aware of her people''s dreadful predicament of loving their homeland but of hating its...
Two voices blend in this poignant memoir from the Civil Rights era in Mississippi--a father''s and a daughter''s. He was Andrew L. Jordan, a son in a dirt-poor family of sharecroppers near Greenwood. Jordana Shakoor is his little girl who grew up to write this book. In her southern childhood she is just becoming aware of her people''s dreadful predicament of loving their homeland but of hating its...
