Author

Publication

1996 - Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas

Language

English

Word Count

46,500 words, Guess

Page Count

186 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100890967164
  • ISBN-139780890967164
  • Library of Congress Control Number96014743
  • OCLC Control Number34475077
  • Open LibraryOL977549M

Classifications

  • DDC976.4/242
  • LCCF394.B94 N37 1996

Alternate Titles

  • Big Mama didn't shop at Woolworth's

Description

Description: Bigmamma Didn't Shop at Woolworth's. Not just because things cost more there than from the hawker who drove through the Candy Hill neighborhood from time to time, but because in the 1950s black shoppers were not very welcome in white Texas towns like Bryan. Sunny Nash was Bigmamma's granddaughter, and through her young eyes she saw not only the indignities and economic hardships her family and friends suffered - unpaved roads, mosquito-infested drainage ditches and outdoor toilets, back stairs to balcony seating in the movies - but also the love and warmth of everyday life in the segregated neighborhood. In the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird, yet more stirring because of its real-life perspective, she tells her story of a time before the civil rights movement of the 1960s with immediacy and poignancy.

Subjects

Topics

BiographySegregationTexas, biographyAfrican AmericansChildhood and youthAfrican American womenAfrican americans, texas

Places

BryanTexasBryan (Tex.)

People

Sunny Nash (1949-)

Times

1950s 1960s

Other Editions

  • Bigmama didn't shop at Woolworth'sTexas A&M University Press1996

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