The World of Patience Gromes
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Scott C. Davis

Scott C. Davis was born in 1948 in Seattle, graduated from Stanford in 1970, and now lives with his wife, Mary, in Seattle. He serves as the US correspondent for Damascus-based Forward magazine - a...
The World of Patience Gromes
Scott C. Davis published by Cune Press
Travel & Nature
published 362 days ago
about 78258 words
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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

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Chapters List
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  

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