The Days of Rondo - Evelyn Fairbanks

Descriere YEO:

The Days of Rondo - - Disponibil la libris.ro

Pe YEO găsești The Days of Rondo - de la Evelyn Fairbanks, în categoria Biography & Autobiography.

Indiferent de nevoile tale, The Days of Rondo - Evelyn Fairbanks din categoria Biography & Autobiography îți poate aduce un echilibru perfect între calitate și preț, cu avantaje practice și moderne.

Caracteristici și Avantaje ale produsului The Days of Rondo -

• Departament: auto-moto-rca
• Ideal pentru iubitorii de mașini și motociclete.
• Conținutul acestui produs te ajută să întreții și să îmbunătățești performanțele vehiculului tău.

Preț: 94.58 Lei

Caracteristicile produsului The Days of Rondo -

• Brand: Evelyn Fairbanks
• Categoria: Biography & Autobiography
• Magazin: libris.ro
• Ultima actualizare: 07-03-2025 01:38:19

Comandă The Days of Rondo - Online, Simplu și Rapid

Prin intermediul platformei YEO, poți comanda The Days of Rondo - de la libris.ro rapid și în siguranță. Bucură-te de o experiență de cumpărături online optimizată și descoperă cele mai bune oferte actualizate constant.

Descriere magazin:
In the 1930s and the 1940s Rondo Avenue was at the heart of St. Paul\'s largest black neighborhood. African Americans whose families had lived in Minnesota for decades and others who were just arriving from the South made up a vibrant, vital community that was in many ways independent of the white society around it. The Days of Rondo is Evelyn Fairbanks\'s affectionate memoir of this lively neighborhood. Its pages are filled with fascinating people: Mama and Daddy--Willie Mae and George Edwards--who taught her about love and pride an dignity; Aunt Good, a tall and stately woman with a queenly secretive attitude; brother Morris, who took the time to teach me about the street and the people I would find there; Mrs. Neal, the genteel activist who showed her the difference between a salad fork and a dessert fork; Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, who started a girls\' string band; and a whole assortment of street vendors and playmates who made up the world of her childhood As she grew up, Fairbanks saw many different sides of her community. Her words bring to life the all-day Sunday services at the Sanctified church, the perfect days of her girlhood, and the ghost stories told on the porch of a soft midwestern summer evening. But she also remembers a visit to relatives in Georgia, the deaths of her Mama and Daddy, and the difficult lessons her free-wheeling brother taught her about friends and money. By the time Evelyn was a teenager, World War II was changing St. Paul and the whole world in ways that touched upon her own life. And through the years she was also discovering what it meant to grow up as a black person in Minnesota. A gifted storyteller, Fairbanks has recreated the patterns of her neighborhood life in a northern city. Her story ends in the mid-1950s, a few years before the Rondo neighborhood was destroyed by freeway construction. In preserving her memories of this distinctive community, Evelyn Fairbanks has added an important dimension to our understanding of Minnesota during those years. Fairbanks spins yarns about St. Paul\'s black society with the flair of a campfire storyteller. --St. Paul Pioneer Press Must reading for anyone wanting a clearer understanding of the history of race relations. --Library Journal Narrative history at its best. --Choice Her prose is simple and concise and is leavened by a rich sense of humor. --Minnesota Monthly The Days In the 1930s and the 1940s Rondo Avenue was at the heart of St. Paul\'s largest black neig