- African Americans, Civil rights movements, Fiction, Interracial dating
Prelude and aftermath of a lynching in Georgia, depicting the South's unsolved racial problem.
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Grave, earnest, bleak and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Lillian Eugenia Smith
- First published
- 1944
- Pages
- 273
- Publisher
- The Cresset Press, World Pub. Co., Cresset Press
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780156856362
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First sentence
“SHE STOOD at the gate, waiting; behind her the swamp, in front of her Colored Town, beyond it, all Maxwell.”
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