PDF-[BOOK]-Stories from the Heart: Missouri\'s African American Heritage (Volume 1) (Missouri

Winner Distinguished Literary Achievement Award Governors Humanities Award in Exemplary Community Achievement given by the Missouri Humanities Council 2010 All along the river from the front porches of Hannibal to the neighborhoods of St Louis to the cotton fields of the Bootheel and west to Kansas City stories are being toldThis collection of family stories and traditional tales brings to print downhome stories about all walks of African American life Passed down from grandparents and greatgrandparents they have been lovingly gathered by Gladys Caines Coggswell as she visited Missouri communities and participated in storytelling events over the last two decades These stories bring to life characters with uncommon courage strength will and wit as they offer insight into African American experiences throughout the states history Often profound always entertaining some of these stories hark back to times barely remembered Many tell of ordinary folks who achieved victories in the face of overwhelming odds They range from recollections of KKK activitiesrecalling a Klan leader who owned property on which a black family lived as the man who was always so nice to usto remembered differences between country and city schools and black schoolchildren introduced to Dick and Jane and Little Black Sambo Stories from the Bootheel shed light on family life sharecropping and the mechanization of cotton culture which in one instance led to a massive migration of rats as the first mechanical cotton pickers came in As memorable as the stories are the people who tell them such as the authors own Uncle Pete reporting on a duck epidemic or Evelyn Pulliam of Kennett telling of her resourceful neighbors in North Lilburn Loretta Washington remembers sitting on her little wooden stool beside her greatgrandmothers rocking chair on the front porch in Wardell mesmerized by storiesand the time when rocking chair and little wooden stool were moved inside and the stories stopped Marlene Rhodes writes of her mothers hero Odie St Louis Entrepreneur and English gentleman Whether sharing previously unknown stories from St Louis or betraying the secret of Why Dogs Chase Cats this book is a rich repository of African American life And if some of these tales seem unusual the people remembering them will be the first to tell you thats the way it was Coggswell preserves them for posterity and along with them an important slice of Missouri history. 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