Contents
A Note on the Text
Looking at Sterling A. Brown’s South: An Introduction
John Edgar Tidwell and Mark A. Sanders
Prologue
“South on the Move”
“Out of Their Mouths”
By Way of Autobiography
“Old Buck”
“Old Man McCorkle”
“Bus Station”
“Club Car”
“Roommate”
“Return of the Native” 64
Jim Crow Journal
“On the Government”
“V for Victory”
“Jim Crow Snapshots”
“A Harvardian Goes South”
“Separate but Equal”
“Fats”
“Words on a Bus”
“Georgia Nymphs”
“And/Or”
Gone with the Wind
“I Look at the Old South”
“Sister Cities”
“Gone with What Wind”
“Symbol of the Old South”
“A Tour of History: Old New Orleans”
“Gee’s Bend”
“Low Cotton”
“Take Your Coat Off, Gene!”
“Insurance Executive”
“Let’s Look at Your Base”
“Meekness in Bronze”
“No Ties That Bind”
Academic Retreat
“The Little Gray Schoolhouse”
“The Path to Alcorn”
“And Gladly Teach”
“What Could Freddie Say?”
“One Language, One People”
“Vicious Circle”
“The Palmer Case”
“Signs of Improvement”
“Colleges: Retreat or Reconnaissance”
Pursuit of Happiness
“And He Never Said a Mumbalin’ Word”
“Song Hunter”
“The Duke Comes to Atlanta”
“Farewell to Basin Street”
“Po’ Wanderin’ Pildom, Miserus Chile”
“Jitterbugs’ Joy”
“From Montmartre to Beaver Slide”
Men of War
“Soldiers of Construction”
“Cubs”
“Primary Field”
Epilogue
“Count Us In”
Annotations
Index