The Star Creek Papers
ISBN-13:
9780820340838
ISBN-10:
0820340839
Author:
Adam Fairclough, Horace Mann Bond, Julia W. Bond
Publication date:
2011
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
Format:
Paperback
200 pages
Category:
Black & African American
,
Cultural & Regional
,
United States
,
Historical
,
South
,
Regional U.S.
,
State & Local
,
United States History
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ISBN-13:
9780820340838
ISBN-10:
0820340839
Author:
Adam Fairclough, Horace Mann Bond, Julia W. Bond
Publication date:
2011
Publisher:
University of Georgia Press
Format:
Paperback
200 pages
Category:
Black & African American
,
Cultural & Regional
,
United States
,
Historical
,
South
,
Regional U.S.
,
State & Local
,
United States History
Summary
The Star Creek Papers (ISBN-13: 9780820340838 and ISBN-10: 0820340839), written by authors
Adam Fairclough, Horace Mann Bond, Julia W. Bond, was published by University of Georgia Press in 2011.
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Description
The Star Creek Papers is the never-before-published account of the complex realities of race relations in the rural South in the 1930s.When Horace and Julia Bond moved to Louisiana in 1934, they entered a world where the legacy of slavery was miscegenation, lingering paternalism, and deadly racism. The Bonds were a young, well-educated and idealistic African American couple working for the Rosenwald Fund, a trust established by a northern philanthropist to build schools in rural areas. They were part of the "Explorer Project" sent to investigate the progress of the school in the Star Creek district of Washington Parish. Their report, which decried the teachers' lack of experience, the poor quality of the coursework, and the students' chronic absenteeism, was based on their private journal, "The Star Creek Diary," a shrewdly observed, sharply etched, and affectionate portrait of a rural black community.Horace Bond was moved to write a second document, "Forty Acres and a Mule," a history of a black farming family, after Jerome Wilson was lynched in 1935. The Wilsons were thrifty landowners whom Bond knew and respected; he intended to turn their story into a book, but the chronicle remained unfinished at his death. These important primary documents were rediscovered by civil rights scholar Adam Fairclough, who edited them with Julia Bond's support.
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