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Roses in December: Black Life in Hanover County from Civil War to Civil Rights

Roses in December: Black Life in Hanover County from Civil War to Civil Rights

Paperback

Series: Carter G. Woodson Institute

Biographies GeneralBlack American HistoryRegional: South

ISBN10: 0813952492
ISBN13: 9780813952499
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: Jan 21 2025
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The inspiring chronicle of a Black community in Virginia fighting for civil rights over the course of a pivotal century

Roses in December is a story of strength, courage, and beauty found in difficult times and the most challenging of circumstances. Beginning in the era of Reconstruction and ending with desegregation, Jody Lynn Allen chronicles the lives of newly freed people and their descendants in Hanover County, Virginia, providing an unprecedented look at rural Black Virginians' resilience after disfranchisement. In the century between 1865 and 1965, Black residents of Hanover County embraced liberty as they organized for education, employment, and religious freedom, and built a community that flourished in the face of white retrenchment and day-to-day oppression. In this at times poignant, at times funny, and always powerful book, Allen's attention to local, community level history offers an overlooked yet vital perspective of the civil rights movement in the rural South.

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