04343nam 2200769 a 450 991096609110332120251128005226.097866131104119781283110419128311041597808203402340820340235(CKB)2550000000032242(EBL)3038969(SSID)ssj0000473407(PQKBManifestationID)11323302(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000473407(PQKBWorkID)10437850(PQKB)10722445(OCoLC)712059577(MdBmJHUP)muse14536(Au-PeEL)EBL3038969(CaPaEBR)ebr10460992(CaONFJC)MIL311041(OCoLC)816841738(MiAaPQ)EBC3038969(Perlego)839445(EXLCZ)99255000000003224219961101d1997 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Star Creek papers /Horace Mann Bond & Julia W. Bond ; edited by Adam Fairclough ; foreword by Julian Bond1st ed.Athens [Ga.] University of Georgia Pressc19971 online resource (203 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780820319049 082031904X Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-154) and index.""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Genealogical Charts""; ""Portrait of Washington Parish""; ""Star Creek Diary""; ""The Lynching""; ""Forty Acres and a Mule""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""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.African AmericansLouisianaWashington ParishSocial life and customsAfrican AmericansLouisianaWashington ParishSocial conditionsRural schoolsLouisianaWashington ParishHistory20th centuryAfrican American farmersLouisianaWashington ParishBiographyLynchingLouisianaWashington ParishHistory20th centuryWashington Parish (La.)Race relationsAfrican AmericansSocial life and customs.African AmericansSocial conditions.Rural schoolsHistoryAfrican American farmersLynchingHistory976.3/11Bond Horace Mann1904-1972.1858938Bond Julia W(Julia Washington)1858939Fairclough Adam1806944Bond Julian1940-2015.1502908MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910966091103321The Star Creek papers4462060UNINA