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Delta Jewels: In Search of My Grandmother’s Wisdom

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Inspired by memories of her beloved grandmother, photographer and creator Alysia Burton Steele–picture editor on a Pulitzer Prize-winning team–combines heart-wrenching narrative with poignant photographs of more than 50 female church elders within the Mississippi Delta.
These abnormal women lived peculiar lives under the harshest conditions of the Jim Crow era and right through the courageous changes of the Civil Rights Movement. With the assistance of local pastors, Steele recorded these living witnesses to history and folk ways, and shares the importance of being a Black woman–child, daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother in Mississippi–a Jewel of the Delta. From the stand Mrs. Tennie Self took for her marriage to be acknowledged within the phone book, to the life-threatening sacrifice required to vote for the primary time, these 50 inspiring portraits are the faces of affection and triumph if you want to teach readers faith and courage in difficult times.
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