Leavin' a Testimony Portraits from Rural Texas

Name: Leavin' a Testimony Portraits from Rural Texas
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ISBN: 9780292713055

ISBN-10: 0292713053

ISBN-13: 9780292713055

Edition: 2006

Authors: Patsy Cravens, John Boles, Bob Patten

List price: $34.95

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Following the interviewing and photographing of the older residents of Colorado Country in the 1980s, Patsy Cravens presents photographs and recollections of the last generation, black and white, who grew up in the era of Jim Crow segregation.

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 7/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 327
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.90" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 2.882
Language: English

Patsy Cravens is a photographer, artist, writer, and video producer in Houston. Some of her photographs been displayed in the traveling exhibition, "Colorado County Memories: Everyone Has a Story to Tell." She also wrote and produced an award-winning oral history documentary called Coming Through Hard Times, which was based in Colorado County and has appeared on PBS.



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction


The Stories


Ethel & Hattie Lee Wilson


Ivory "Pie" Steward


"Kasper's Meat Market, Since 1917"


Jack Fields


George Braziel


Eva Mae Glover


Bennie Charles "B.C." Glover


Myrtle Glover Toliver


Leroy Glover


Ida Mae Mitchell


Charles Trefny Jr.


Emma & Charles Trefny Sr.


Charles Trefny Talks about the River


Rosie Lee Hasty


Hosie "Sonny" Hasty


Odie D. Townsend


Lillie & Richard Freis


Elizabeth "Lillie" Lemons Atkinson


Jaynice & Jodie Feyrer


Rosezena Woodson


Romona Woodson Cheeks


Cassie Woodson McGrew


Mary Hausner


Lillie Williams


Marie Williams


G.A. "Big Boy" Williams


Walter Williams


Lee Andrew Williams


Lillie Williams Barnes & Wilbert Barnes


Oliver "Junior" Williams


Lisa Williams


Alex Williams, Tycie Williams, & Tennille Almeida


Quentin Steitz


Truman McMahan


Lonzo Dorn


Beulah Dorn


LaVon Simpson & Mary Ann Nicholson


Willie Beyer


Willie Walchar


Bud Greak


Isabel M. Garcia


Mamie Johnson


Clarence Johnson


Dorothy Lain


Leora & Louis "Bug" Henry


Ruby Hicks


Jim Kearney


Paulina van Bavel Kearney


Sarah Elaine Kearney


Lacey Henry


Pearl Ray Bremby


Bessie Mae Williams


Irizola Wilson


Early Wilson


Sadie & George Dorn


Lillie Kahlden Freis


Lonnie Coleman


Roy Lee Coleman


Willie Mae Denley


W.B. "Bennie" Isgrig


Ernest Brown


Emma Stancik


Lillie Poenitzsch


JoAnn Vornsand


H.C. Taylor


Andrew Jackson Gillespie


Jim Carter


Josephine Carter


Harvey & Ruth Steward


Mary Mann & Rev. Melvin Jack Williams


Selma & Walter "Jack" Johnson Jr.


Juan Ybarbo


Stella Taylor


Tracy Vlasta Koller


Father Victor Schmidtzinsky


Melvin Houston


Heine & Earlyne Beken


The Pesak Brothers


Olga Mae Hefner


Em Hay


Herbert Baines


Leila Jackson


Medie Mae Scott


Henry Grays


Joe & Nicolasa Ramirez


RoseLee Ann & Frankie Neiser


Henry Lee Williams


Gabriel Almeida


John Webb


Afterword