Vivian Gibson grew up in Mill Creek Valley, a segregated working-class neighborhood of St.
In Gibson\'s words, This memoir is about survival, as told from the viewpoint of a watchful young girl -- a collection of decidedly universal stories that chronicle the extraordinary lives of ordinary people..
A moving memoir of family life at a time very different from the present, The Last Children of Mill Creek chronicles the everyday lived experiences of Gibson\'s large family -- her seven siblings, her crafty, college-educated mother, and her hard-working father -- and the friends, shop owners, church ladies, teachers, and others who made Mill Creek into a warm, tight-knit African-American community.
The three rooms of her childhood home were heated by a wood-burning stove; her family had no hot water or furnace, but what Gibson lacked in material comforts she made up for in imagination.
Louis that was razed in 1959 to build a highway, an act of racism disguised under urban renewal as progress.
Vivian Gibson grew up in Mill Creek Valley, a segregated working-class neighborhood of St
