Centered around a small plantation in the heart of middle Georgia's nineteenth-century cotton culture, "The Granite Farm Letters" send forth from the Civil War years not simply a record of clashing armies at the front or of the fraying fabric of life at home but also the correspondence of a close-knit family--the candid love and longing of husband and wife, the warm bonds of parents and children held firm through the turbulence of war.
Centered around a small plantation in the heart of middle Georgia's nineteenth-century cotton culture, "The Granite Farm Letters" send forth from the ...
Centered around a small plantation in the heart of middle Georgia's nineteenth-century cotton culture, "The Granite Farm Letters" send forth from the Civil War years not simply a record of clashing armies at the front or of the fraying fabric of life at home but also the correspondence of a close-knit family--the candid love and longing of husband and wife, the warm bonds of parents and children held firm through the turbulence of war.
Centered around a small plantation in the heart of middle Georgia's nineteenth-century cotton culture, "The Granite Farm Letters" send forth from the ...
John McCown was a black civil rights worker who achieved great political power and whose career, and life, ended in a swirl of controversy. In 1968, Georgia s Hancock County became the first county in the United States since Reconstruction to come under black political control, in large part because of the charismatic leadership of McCown, who secured millions in grants from the Office of Economic Opportunity, the Ford Foundation, and the East Central Committee for Opportunity.
Eight years later, McCown s regime ended with his dramatic death and indictments against McCown and his...
John McCown was a black civil rights worker who achieved great political power and whose career, and life, ended in a swirl of controversy. In 1968...
