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Published: 24 April 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
Published: 04 March 2004
DOI: 10.1215/9780822385554-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8555-4
Published: 24 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375586-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
... Describes the Dardens, the family that lived across the street from Rosemarie in Woodlawn. Shirley Darden was Rosemarie’s best friend, and Rosemarie idolized Shirley’s older sister, Sarah. The Dardens were a kind of second family to her; the great-grandmother was still alive, and had been...
Published: 24 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375586
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
Published: 24 April 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
Published: 24 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375586-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
... Tells the story of feeling what Rosemarie calls “the Light” entering her as a young woman—a sensitivity/sensibility that she felt led her toward spirituality and sustained her throughout her life. mystic experience spirituality of compassion light ...
Published: 24 April 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
...Ground Poem about Rosemarie’s great-grandmother (Mariah Grant/Grandma Rye, an ex-slave) and the rituals and prayers she created for healing. Mariah Grant/Grandma Rye sweeping prayers Relates Mariah Grant’s personal history and some of her personality traits. This chapter helps...
Published: 24 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375586-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
... Poem about Rosemarie’s great-grandmother (Mariah Grant/Grandma Rye, an ex-slave) and the rituals and prayers she created for healing. Mariah Grant/Grandma Rye sweeping prayers ...
Published: 24 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375586-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
... Relates Mariah Grant’s personal history and some of her personality traits. This chapter helps explain the origins of the mystic and healing traditions in the family, and draws parallels between Grandma Rye and Rosemarie’s own mother, Mama Freeney. Through Grandma Rye’s story, the chapter also...
Published: 24 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375586-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
... Recounts Rosemarie’s parents’ mixed reaction when she and her husband decided to move to Georgia (which the family had left in the 1920s, before Rosemarie was born). The chapter details the violence that sent the family north during the Great Migration, the sense of homecoming Rosemarie...
Published: 24 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375586-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
... Describes some of the jobs Rosemarie’s father had in Georgia, and his experience of overhearing white people talk disparagingly about blacks as if he were not present, even as he worked in their sight. Tells story of an African American soldier being forced by whites to jump from a train...
Published: 24 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375586-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
... Recalls a number of anecdotes told to Rosemarie and Rachel by a cousin, Joe Daniels. All of the stories are about his headstrong nature as a youth, which led to his family leaving Georgia (he was unruly and was going to get them or himself in trouble). Joe Daniels Leesburg Georgia lost...
Published: 24 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375586-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
... Tells the story of Rosemarie’s Uncle Willie Dan, and her father, Daddy Freeney, racing their cars along a Georgia country road. Both cars are filled with family members and when Uncle Willie Dan’s car crashes, the adults go looking for help for an injured Aunt Mary, instructing all the children...
Published: 24 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375586-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
... This chapter is about Rosemarie’s mother, Ella Lee, as a child and as an adult—her intelligence, her idiosyncrasies, her ability to make people feel good about themselves, her ethics, and what Rosemarie learned from her. Ella Lee Freeney Leesburg Georgia James Harris (“Papa Jim...
Published: 24 April 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
...North Describes Rosemarie’s childhood in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Southside Chicago, an economically diverse African American community where dozens of her relatives lived and where many of the inhabitants were recent immigrants from the South. The chapter discusses Rosemarie’s...
Published: 24 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375586-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
... Describes Rosemarie’s childhood in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Southside Chicago, an economically diverse African American community where dozens of her relatives lived and where many of the inhabitants were recent immigrants from the South. The chapter discusses Rosemarie’s experiences...
Published: 24 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375586-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
... Describes the circumstances surrounding the death of Rosemarie’s favorite older brother, Bud. The fact that her parents didn’t press charges against Bud’s killer informed Rosemarie’s belief in nonviolence. Charles Dock Freeney Sr. (“Bud”) death nonviolence Ella Lee Freeney (“Mama...
Published: 24 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375586-012
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
... In this chapter, Rosemarie discusses the way her family viewed and handled death—with sadness, but also with a sense of community, as a reaffirming of life. She also talks about some of the things that simply weren’t discussed when she was a child (such as the lynchings that sent the family...
Published: 24 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375586-013
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
... A brief anecdote about Rosemarie being sent to collect her nephew, Charles, during a storm, which segues into a reflection upon the weather—Rosemarie’s own personal relationship with the changing seasons, and her parents’ attitude toward them as well. Rhodes Avenue Chicago Illinois...
Published: 24 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375586-014
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7558-6
... A meditation on beauty that starts by describing some female family members who Rosemarie admired as a child—her cousins Pansy and Juanita—and ends with a broader look at the way a certain attitude of resilience in the face of injustice and pain has sometimes helped African Americans forge...