Lemon Swamp and Other Places
A CAROLINA MEMOIR
Published on 1. March 1985
Book
Paperback/Softback
250 pages
978-0-02-910550-4 (ISBN)
Description
Mamie Garvin Fields was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1888. Though black, her family was gifted and she grew up not among house servants or sharecroppers but among artisans and professionals.
In LEMON SWAMP, she looks back on this all-but-forgotten community of friends and family, and on the wider social landscape of the segregationist South of her youth.
In LEMON SWAMP, she looks back on this all-but-forgotten community of friends and family, and on the wider social landscape of the segregationist South of her youth.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Simon & Schuster
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
468 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-02-910550-4 (9780029105504)
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Person
Mamie Garvin Fields is a Charleston, South Carolina native, where her great-uncle J.B. Middleton built his home more than 100 years ago. Well known in South Carolina for her lifelong service as a religion and civic activist, she was named the state's Senior Citizen of the Year in 1971.