| Contents |
Part I. The dreamers. When I was a child; Custom and conscience; Unto the third and fourth generation; The stolen future -- Part II. The white man's burden in his own childhood. The lessons; Trembling earth; Three ghost stories; The women -- Part III. Giants in the earth. Distance and darkness; Two men and a bargain; Tobacco Road is a long journey; Southern waste -- Part IV. The dream and its killers. Man against the past; We are tall enough for men. |
| Abstract |
In this autobiographical work, the author draws on memories of her childhood to describe the psychological costs of the contradictory rules in Southern Society about sin, sex and segregation. She cites the evils of segregation for both white and colored people and gives the history of race relations from pre-Civil War days. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare copy gift of Gene and Susan Roberts, 2016. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Smith, Lillian Eugenia, 1897-1966. Killers of the dream. [1st ed.]. New York, W.W. Norton [1949] |
| LCCN | 49006772 |
