Scott C. Davis published by Cune Press
Travel & Nature
published 362 days ago
about 78258 words

After the Civil War, Patience Gromes and other African-Americans of her generation left the country and came to the city. They married, took jobs, purchased houses, raised families. They pursued the program of hard work and thrift that their parents and grandparents had perfected in the country after the Civil War. Patience Gromes and her peers brought the project that three generations of African-Americans had been pursuing to a triumpant conclusion in the Civil Rights Movement. Then came a complex new world that rewarded a person's ability to wheel and deal in the city world, a world that rewarded bootleggers and gamblers and those who knew how to maneuver in a realm dominated by whites. Those who merely knew how to work, save, rear their children, build churches, schools, social clubs - those who merely knew how to lead good lives found themselves cut adrift. In this new modern world, Patience Gromes could scarcely survive.


"Without seeming to try, The World of Patience Gromes contributes as much to our understanding of the modern black inner-city as any book written in this decade." - Wall Street Journal

Chap. #	Title	# Words
1	Contents	322	Free Sample!
2	1. Patience Gromes	4117
3	2. First, Second, Third Generations	11275
4	3. The New Poor	9911
5	4. Fourth, Fifth, Sixth Generations	5500
6	5. Street Youth	10559
7	6. The Ad Hoc Committee	6304
8	7. Third Generation	7242
9	8. Fourth Generation	7102
10	9. Low Life	5447
11	10. Flood	7787
12	The Author	96
13	The Illustrator	53
14	Acknowledgments	242
15	Fulton Residents	2171
16	Bibliography	130