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About this book
“An American classic.” —The New Yorker
In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country.
Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy, offering an unforgettable portrait of his father, a brilliant farmer and a strict segregationist who treated black workers with respect and fairness; his strong-willed and well-read mother; and the five other people who shaped his early life, three of whom were black.
Carter's clean and eloquent prose evokes a time when the cycles of life were predictable and simple and the rules were heartbreaking and complex. In his singular voice and with a novelist's gift for detail, Jimmy Carter creates a sensitive portrait of an era that shaped the nation and recounts a classic, American story of enduring importance.
In An Hour Before Daylight, Jimmy Carter, bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength, recreates his Depression-era boyhood on a Georgia farm before the civil rights movement forever changed it and the country.
Carter writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy, offering an unforgettable portrait of his father, a brilliant farmer and a strict segregationist who treated black workers with respect and fairness; his strong-willed and well-read mother; and the five other people who shaped his early life, three of whom were black.
Carter's clean and eloquent prose evokes a time when the cycles of life were predictable and simple and the rules were heartbreaking and complex. In his singular voice and with a novelist's gift for detail, Jimmy Carter creates a sensitive portrait of an era that shaped the nation and recounts a classic, American story of enduring importance.
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Index
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
abortion, 196
Abrams, Gussie, 47, 111, 197
adultery, 222–23, 253
African Americans:
as athletes, 95
Carter’s friendships with, 36–43, 45, 46–47, 73–77, 186, 207–8, 210, 229–30, 270
churches of, 15, 20, 21–24, 56–57, 220–21
as day laborers, 28
discrimination against, 20–21, 65, 66, 159, 187
education of, 20–21, 24, 210
emancipation of, 17, 50, 220
equality of, 24, 259–61, 269
health of, 53–54, 80, 191, 192
legal system and, 60, 149
life expectancy of, 53
music of, 21–22, 61, 62
poor whites and, 19, 20
poverty of, 19
as railroad employees, 15, 61–62
segregation of, 17, 19–21, 23–24, 32–33, 69, 95–96, 99–100, 131, 159, 210, 220–21, 229–30, 267, 269–70
as sharecroppers, 50, 53–54, 65, 69, 77, 182–88
as slaves, 17, 18–19, 50, 187, 220
voter registration by, 260–61
white relations with, 18, 19–21, 23–24, 32–33, 36–37, 183, 186–87, 196–97, 260, 269
work stoppages by, 56–57
African Methodist Episcopal Church, 15, 21–24, 62, 210, 221
Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933), 63–66
Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 70–71
agriculture:
economic factors in, 27–28, 111, 161–90, 199–200
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- One: Land, Farm, and Place
- Two: Sharecropping as a Way of Life
- Three: Hard Times, and Politics
- Four: My Life as a Young Pup
- Five: My Mama and Daddy
- Six: Boiled Peanuts in Plains
- Seven: Breaking Ground, to be a Man
- Eight: Learning More About Life
- Nine: Learning About Sin
- Ten: The Carters of Georgia
- Eleven: The Navy Versus Plains
- Acknowledgments
- Photo Credits
- About the Author
- Index
- Copyright