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Author Corn, Marti, author

Title The Ground on Which I Stand : Tamina, a Freedmen's Town / Marti Corn ; foreword by Tracy Xavia Karner
Edition First edition
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2016]
[Place of publication not identified] : Texas A & M University Press, 2016

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Series Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; Number Twenty-two
Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 22.
Contents Series editor's foreword / by M. Hunter Hayes -- Foreword: storied lives / by Tracy Xavia Karner -- Preface -- Introduction: Freedmen's settlements / by Thad Sitton -- The landscape -- The Chevalier family -- The Schuster family -- The Elmore family -- The Rhodes family -- The Falvey family -- Reverend Roger Leveston and the faith of Tamina -- The Grimes family -- The Jones family -- The Brown family -- The Durst family -- The Robinson family -- The Pitts family -- The faces of Tamina -- Grave stomping -- Poverty: caught in a trap / by Wanda Horton-Woodworth -- Entrusting voices to history / by Tacey A. Rosolowski -- Afterword -- Appendix: Tamina timeline
Summary One of the last remaining freedmen's towns in the United States ... In 1871, newly freed slaves established the community of Tamina--then called "Tammany"--North of Houston, near the rich timberlands of Montgomery County. Located in proximity to the just-completed Houston and Great Northern Railroad line, the community benefited from the burgeoning local lumber industry and available transportation. The residents built homes, churches, a one-room school, and a general store. Over time, urban growth and change has overtaken Tamina. The sprawling communities of The Woodlands, Shenandoah, Chateau Woods, and Oak Ridge have encroached, introducing opportunities and challenges. On the one hand, the children of Tamina have the opportunity to attend some of the best public schools in the nation; on the other hand, residents whose education and job skills have not kept pace with modern society are struggling for survival and are at risk of gentrification due to the value of their land. Through striking and intimate photography and sensitively gleaned oral histories, Marti Corn has chronicled the lives, dreams, and spirit of the people of Tamina. Twelve descendent families representing different aspects of the community--young and old, black cowboys, ministers, first and sixth generation residents--share stories of poverty and prejudice, their love of this community and place, and dreams for their future. The result is a multi-faceted portrait of a community's undying pride, endurance, kinship, faith, and humor
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject African American families -- Texas -- Tamina -- Pictorial works
African American families -- Texas -- Tamina -- History
African Americans -- Texas -- Tamina -- Interviews
African Americans -- Texas -- Tamina -- History
African Americans -- Texas -- Tamina -- Pictorial works
African Americans -- Texas -- Tamina -- History -- Interviews
African Americans -- Texas -- Tamina -- History -- Pictorial works
African American families -- Texas -- Tamina
Photography / Photoessays & Documentaries.
Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional.
Photography / Subjects & Themes / Lifestyles.
African American families
African Americans
SUBJECT Tamina (Tex.) -- Pictorial works
Tamina (Tex.) -- History
Genre/Form Electronic books
oral histories (literary works)
Oral histories
History
Interviews
Pictorial works
Oral histories.
Histoires orales.
Form Electronic book
Author Karner, Tracy X., 1959- writer of foreword.
ISBN 1623493773
9781623493776
Other Titles Tamina, a freedmen's town