Step Johnson: A Novel of Deep-South Civil Rights and Wrongs in 1936 - Couverture souple

Chambers, John A.

 
9780595520688: Step Johnson: A Novel of Deep-South Civil Rights and Wrongs in 1936
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595520685 ISBN 13 : 9780595520688
Editeur : iUniverse, 2008

Synopsis

In June of 1936, Step Johnson of Savannah, Georgia, a brilliant black odd-jobs man, part-time thug, full-time womanizer, is a cynical rebel with numerous causes, usually negative. His sweet and unselfish girlfriend, twenty-year-old Gancy Miller, "deserts" him to care for her ill sister, Sweet Annie, in Lourdes, called Lordies, in the next state. Angry as well as desolate, he hitchhikes after her. Gancy, rebounded, is now involved with Lonnie Milsaps, a white Lourdes barber and gun-dealing entrepreneur whose twin fixations are hiding his misalliance and frantically chasing a franchise for the sensational new Royal Crown Colas. Step's nightmarish pilgrim's progress through emotional and physical abuse inspires soul searching that is long overdue. Persecution and introspection continue in Lordies, where he's blackjacked for deliberately taking a white bus seat. He also acquires an unwarranted and undesired, yet unshakable, reputation for miracle-working. Lordies' black establishment resents Step as a rival. White folk loathe him as an agitator, especially the power hungry chief of police, Hershel Laycock. Step becomes the reluctant, yet committed, leader of a tragically isolated civil rights awakening. Its unexpected climax is both deadly and inspiring.

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Biographie de l'auteur

John A. Chambers was born in the Deep South in 1924 and navigated B-17s in European combat in 1944. He graduated with a physics degree from Georgia Tech. Chambers worked in public relations, both in the service and afterward, and was a member of the von Braun space team.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595520685
ISBN 13 
9780595520688
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
216
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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Hamburg
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9781440108068: Step Johnson: A Novel of Deep-south Civil Rights and Wrongs in 1936

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1440108064 ISBN 13 :  9781440108068
Editeur : iUniverse, 2008
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