The Star Creek Papers

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The Star Creek Papers is the never-before-published account of the complex realities of race relations within the rural South within the 1930s.

When Horace and Julia Bond moved to Louisiana in 1934, they entered a world where the legacy of slavery used to be miscegenation, lingering paternalism, and deadly racism. The Bonds were a young, well-educated and idealistic African American couple working for the Rosenwald Fund, a consider established by a northern philanthropist to build schools in rural areas. They were a part of the “Explorer Project” sent to investigate the progress of the school within the Star Creek district of Washington Parish. Their report, which decried the teachers’ loss of experience, the poor quality of the coursework, and the students’ chronic absenteeism, used to be in line with their private journal, “The Star Creek Diary,” a shrewdly observed, sharply etched, and affectionate portrait of a rural black community.

Horace Bond used to be moved to write a second document, “Forty Acres and a Mule,” a history of a black farming circle of relatives, after Jerome Wilson used to be lynched in 1935. The Wilsons were thrifty landowners whom Bond knew and respected; he intended to turn their story into a book, but the chronicle remained unfinished at his death. These necessary number one documents were rediscovered by civil rights scholar Adam Fairclough, who edited them with Julia Bond’s reinforce.

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