Roses in December : Black life in Hanover County from Civil War to civil rights / Jody Lynn Allen.

Author/creator Allen, Jody Lynn author.
Format Book
PublicationCharlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2025.
Copyright Date©2025
Descriptionxii, 218 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Subjects
African Americans--Virginia. --Hanover County. --Social conditions.
African Americans--Virginia. --Hanover County. --History.
Noirs américains--Virginie. --Hanover (Comté). --Conditions sociales.
Noirs américains--Virginie. --Hanover (Comté). --Histoire.
Hanover County (Va.)--Race relations.

SeriesCarter G. Woodson Institute series
Carter G. Woodson Institute series. ^A589088
Contents Introduction: A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place -- Seeking and Embracing Freedom -- The Politics of Reconstruction and the Entente Cordiale That Never Was -- An Uneasy Citizenship: The Path to Disfranchisement -- Disfranchised: The First Generation -- The Great Depression, New Deal, War, and Ordinary Acts of Resistance -- The Heat of Change -- Epilogue: Black Life in Hanover County, Virginia, Today.
Abstract "This book chronicles an upper South Black community in a rural environment coping with and even thriving in the face of day-to-day oppression between 1865 and 1965"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Allen, Jody Lynn. Roses in December Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2025 9780813952505
LCCN 2024031214
ISBN9780813952482 hardcover
ISBN0813952484 hardcover
ISBN9780813952499 paperback
ISBN0813952492 paperback
ISBNelectronic book