Delta Fragments: The Recollections of a Sharecropper's Son

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Delta Fragments Delta Fragments The Recollections of a Sharecropper’s Son John Oliver Hodges The UniversiTy of Tennessee Press / Knoxville l Copyright © 2013 by The University of Tennessee Press / Knoxville. All Rights Reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. First Edition. Photographs are courtesy of the author. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hodges, John Oliver, 1944– Delta fragments: the recollections of a sharecropper’s son / John Oliver Hodges. —First Edition. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-62190-033-7 ISBN-10: 1-62190-033-9 1. Hodges, John Oliver, 1944—Childhood and youth. 2. African Americans—Mississippi—Delta (Region)—Biography. 3. Delta (Miss.: Region)—Social conditions—20th century. 4. Delta (Miss.: Region)—Biography. I. Title. F347.M6H64 2013 976.2ˇ4063092—dc23 [B] 2012046687 FOR MY FORMER TEACHERS AND STUDENTS AND FOR MY SON, DANIEL— SO THAT HE TOO MAY KNOW ...