Format:
pages cm
ISBN:
9781682262405
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1682262405
Content:
"Showers of Blessings tells the story of Myrtle Lawrence, an Arkansas Delta sharecropper who made extraordinary strides personally and professionally as one of the most effective organizers in the biracial Southern Tenant Farmers' Union during the Great Depression. This biography is lavishly illustrated with Louise Boyle's Depression-era photographs of Myrtle and her world, most of them published here for the first time. While Boyle's images share some essential DNA with the iconic FSA photos from her contemporaries Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, they are singular in extensively documenting political alliances across the color line in the segregated South"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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2401
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"But for the showers we plead": Louise Boyle's photographs of Myrtle Lawrence and her world -- Myrtle -- Can you hear their voices? -- The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union -- I can read now -- Inverting the documentary
Additional Edition:
Online version Payne, Elizabeth Anne, 1943- Showers of blessings Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2024 ISBN 9781610758055
Language:
English
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