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A boy from Georgia : coming of age in the segregated South

A boy from Georgia : coming of age in the segregated South

Jordan, Hamilton, author.
Book 2015

When Hamilton Jordan died of peritoneal mesothelioma in 2008, he left behind a mostly finished memoir, a book on which he had been working for the last decade. Jordan's daughter, Kathleen - with the help of her brothers and mother - took up the task of editing and completing the book. A Boy from Georgia - the result of this posthumous father-daughter collaboration - chronicles Hamilton Jordan's childhood in Albany, Georgia, charting his moral and...

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Explore Topics & Themes:
Albany (Ga.) Biography
Albany (Ga.) Social life and customs 20th century
Jordan, Hamilton Childhood and youth
Jordan, Hamilton Family
Politicians Georgia Biography
United States Race relations History 20th century Anecdotes
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ISBN:
9780820348896
0820348899
Edition:
First edition
Description:
xiii, 228 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes index
Contents:
An Albany childhood
Lexington ways
Aw-ben-ny
Politics in my blood
The facts of life
Fear and the fifties
Are the Russians coming?
The real terror
Uncle Frank's shelter
Growing up: before the deluge
Albany High
Meet the Gottheimers
Overcoming the past
Two, four, six, eight, we don't want to integrate
Washington, the first time around, 1963
Vertical engineer
The March on Washington, August 1963
Uncle Clarence
The Man from Plains
Afterword from the editor
LCCN:
2015013484
Control Number:
3262013
Other Authors:
Jordan, Kathleen, editor
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