Killers of the dream

Author cites the evils of segregation for both white and colored people and gives the history of race relations from pre-Civil War days.

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Main Author: Smith, Lillian (Lillian Eugenia), 1897-1966
Other Authors: Gladney, Margaret Rose
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Norton, [1994]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to the 1994 edition
  • Foreword: a letter to my publisher
  • Part I. The dreamers. When I was a child ; Custom and conscience ; Unto the third and fourth generation ; The stolen future
  • Part II. The white man's burden. The lessons ; Trembling earth ; Three ghost stories ; The women
  • Part III. Giants in the earth. Distance and darkness ; Two men and a bargain ; Tobacco Road is a long journey ; Southern waste
  • Part IV. The dream and its killers. Man against the human being ; The chasm and the bridge.