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Patsy Cravens : Leavin' a Testimony: Portraits from Rural Texas

University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas, 2006

ISBN 9780292713055

4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. AA1 - A first edition (stated) hardcover book SIGNED by Patsy Cravens with "Maybe you can help gather stories of your own and friends - it's greak work" written on the half-title page in good condition in good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and chipping on the edges and corners, water soiled on the front and flaps, some scattered stains, rubbing, scratches and scuffing, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book cocked and lightly bowed, some bumped corners, water soiled on the sides opposite the spine on the inside pages, light discoloration and shelf wear. Foreword by John B. Boles, Afterword by Bob Patten. Focus on American History Series, Don Carleton, Editor. 10"x7", 302 pages.. Satisfaction Guaranteed. First settled by Stephen F. Austin's colonists in the early nineteenth century, Colorado County has deep roots in Texas history. Mainly rural and agrarian until late in the twentieth century, Colorado County was a cotton-growing region whose population was about evenly divided between blacks and whites. These life-long neighbors led separate and unequal lives, memories of which still linger today. To preserve those memories, Patsy Cravens began interviewing and photographing the older residents of Colorado County in the 1980s. In this book, she presents photographs and recollections of the last generation, black and white, who grew up in the era of Jim Crow segregation. The folks in Colorado County have engrossing stories to tell. They recall grinding poverty and rollicking fun in the Great Depression, losing crops and livestock to floods, working for the WPA, romances gone wrong and love gone right, dirty dancing, church and faith, sharecropping, quilting, raising children, racism and bigotry, and even the horrific lynching of two African American teenagers in 1935. The Colorado County residents' stories reveal an amazing resiliency and generosity of spirit, despite the hardships that have filled most of their lives. They also capture a rural way of life that was once common across the South, but is now gone forever.. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good

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