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If the Creek Don't Rise
My Life Out West with the Last Black Widow of the Civil War
Rita Williams
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Synopsis |
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When Rita Williams was four, her mother died in a Denver boarding house. This death delivered Rita into the care of her aunt Daisy, the last surviving African American widow of a Union soldier and a maverick who had spirited her sharecropping family out of the lynching South and reinvented them as ranch hands and hunting guides out West. But one by one they slipped away, to death or to an easier existence elsewhere, leaving Rita as Daisy's last hope to right the racial wrongs of the past and to make good on a lifetime of thwarted ambition. If the Creek Don't Rise tells how Rita found her way out from under this crippling legacy and, instead of becoming "a perfect credit to her race," discovered how to become herself.
Set amid the harsh splendor of the Colorado Rockies, this is a gorgeous, ruthless, and unique account of the lies families live-and the moments of truth and beauty that save us.
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Biography |
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Rita Williams lives in Los Angeles. She has been an actor, musician, professor, recovery counselor, and radio announcer as well as a writer. Her previous work has appeared in the LA Weekly and O, the Oprah Magazine. This is her first book.
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Biography & Autobiography- People of Color
Biography & Autobiography- Women
Biography & Autobiography- Personal Memoirs
History- United States/20th Century
History- United States/State & Local/West (AK, CA
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Academic Disciplines & Course Studies |
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English Language & Literature- American Literature
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Interdisciplinary Studies- African/African-American Studies
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Interdisciplinary Studies- Women's Studies
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Serial: Harcourt
Audio/Performance/UK/Translation: Curtis Brown Ltd
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Harcourt Books
An imprint ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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