Ahead of Her Time in Yesteryear: Geraldyne Pierce Zimmerman Comes of Age in a Southern African American Family

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Ahead of Her Time in Yesteryear Ahead of Her Time in Yesteryear: Geraldyne Pierce Zimmerman Comes of Age in a Southern African American Family Kibibi Voloria Mack-Shelton With a Foreword by Hayward Farrar Jr. The University of Tennessee Press / Knoxville [ Copyright © 2010 by The University of Tennessee Press / Knoxville. All Rights Reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. First Edition. Unless otherwise noted, all photos are from the private collection of Geraldyne Pierce Zimmerman. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mack-Williams, Kibibi, 1955– Ahead of her time in yesteryear: Geraldyne Pierce Zimmerman comes of age in a Southern African American family / Kibibi V. Mack-Shelton. — 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. eISBN-13: 978-1-57233-736-7 eISBN-10: 1-57233-736-2 1. Zimmerman, Geraldyne Pierce, 1911– 2. African American women—South Carolina—Orangeburg—Biography. 3. African Americans—South Carolina—Orangeburg—Biography. 4. Older people—South Carolina—Orangeburg—Biography. 5. Orangeburg (S.C.)—Biography. 6. African Americans—South Carolina—Orangeburg—Social conditions. 7. African American families—South Carolina—Orangeburg. 8. Orangeburg (S.C.)—Rural conditions. 9. African American families—Case studies. 10. Intergenerational relations—United States—Case studies. I. Title. F279.O6M34 2010 975.7'79042092—dc22 [B] 2010015362 Dedicated to Carter G. Woodson, John Hope Franklin, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, and Eugene Genovese for their brilliant scholarship to the field of African American history ...