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1935
Sam Cornish
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Ploughshares Books, 1990.
ISBN: 0933277040  

Summary:

Beginning with family and the year of his birth, Sam Cornish
describes what he saw and heard in the lives of a people touched by
history -- World War II, the Depression, segregation, the fifties;
also poetry and music. Using a combination of autobiography, poetry
and fiction the author creates a collage of the Afro-American
experience and a portrait of a man and an era in the United States.

Notes:

On cover: "1935: a memoir"

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: 181 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

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•  Indiana State University Consortium (last modified on 06/25/2009)
•  Virginia Commonwealth University (last modified on 05/29/2005)

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