Contributions

  • Davies, Lois - Contributor

Publication

1980 - Troy Historical Society], [Troy, Ohio, Ohio

Language

English

Word Count

34,000 words, Guess

Page Count

136 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC977.1/48
  • LCCF499.T76 W45 1980

Description

This book is a set of diaries written simultaneously by two women, one black and one white. They wrote about their day to day encounters with one another and with others in the small mid American town of Troy, Ohio. It describes the subtle discrimination between white and black people that nobody would speak aloud. It revealed the slow realization between these women of how important it was to recognize these issues and deal with them in a more equitable fashion in an effort to make all points of life assessable to all people. In the period of time this was written, these women became aware of how the lives they were living, ignoring the realities of the subtle but very solid division of the races, just needed to change and how the two, working side by side, help to make those changes. It is real life. Not very sophisticated, but real, in your face, life, in mid America. Not for casual reading. It was made into a play and presented off-Broadway by The SoHo Theatre. A powerful eye opener.

Subjects

Topics

DiariesRace relationsDavies, Lois -- DiariesWheat, Lucille K. -- DiariesTroy (Ohio) -- Race relations

Places

People

Lois DaviesLucille K. Wheat

Times

Mid to late 1940's. 1946-1948

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