| Description |
xv, 144 pages : 23 cm |
| Contents |
Part 1: The past revisited in the Low Country: Water -- Bathroom -- Electricity -- Schedule -- Odors from my mother's kitchen -- Weather predictions -- Home-school games and free play -- Playhouse -- Spinning acorns -- Kites -- Slingshots -- Dolls -- Tool training for young boys -- Plowing straight lines -- Animals calls -- Other home-made skills / Part II : In celebration of the Low Country school; Second World War, the Low Country in 1940 -- The one-room school building -- The love of books -- Recycled classromm books -- The role of the teacher -- Official daily opening of school -- The academic track profile -- Mathematics -- Penmanship -- Other school tasks -- Daily book confrontations -- After-school home visits and dinner -- Continous school and future plans -- Leaving home for a new school -- The ultimate aim to succeed / Part III : Celebrate a 1940 Low Country teacher; Naming schools in the Low Country -- Location of schools -- African American teachers in the past -- Miss Ophelia Ramsay's first teaching job -- From the Up Country to the Low COuntry -- Reception for the new teacher / Part IV : More stories form the Low COuntry; Parties and quilts in Camp Branch -- Hog butchering day -- The last piece of cornbread -- Winter food preparation -- Christmas Jubilee at our house -- The days when men logged and pulped wood -- The big Low COuntry thunderstorm funeral -- One dozen and another egg -- Mashing toes -- The Wrinkled hat -- The Cloroxed dress -- A Sunday to remeber at Antioch -- The old 1937 Ford -- A busy night for the Klansmen -- High school graduation pictures / Part V : Project; String sand shovel project -- For Freedom Trail documentation in the state of South Carolina -- The syrup boiler -- Other concerns / Part VI : Supplementary handbook, and conclusions; Sing-along response siritual songs -- A collection of spirituals -- The Blues sing-along -- Some original Blues thoughts -- Jazz -- Children's rhymes, action songs -- Holidays and ethnic pride -- Who are we? -- A treasured calendar from the past -- Creations by Blacks from 1791-1971 -- Folklore through storytelling. |
| Subject |
Holes, Stella Marian D.
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African American women -- Biography.
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South Carolina -- History.
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| ISBN |
1403365032 $16.95 |
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