Tales and tombstones of Sunset Cemetery : tracing lives and memorial customs in a Southern graveyard / June Hadden Hobbs and Joe DePriest ; photographs by Hal Bryant.
| Author/creator |
Hobbs, June Hadden, 1948- author. |
| Other author/creator | DePriest, Joe, 1944- author. |
| Other author/creator | Bryant, Hal, 1950- photographer. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2022] |
| Description | viii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | A glimpse of life a century and more ago -- Women you'd want to have coffee with -- Guys your mother wouldn't let you sit with in church -- Gone too soon -- Rebels and revisionists -- Law and lynchings in the Jim Crow South -- Names you might see in the newspaper -- Cultural heroes -- Ministers to body, mind, and soul -- Garden of the enslaved. |
| Abstract | "This book relates the stories of the people buried in Shelby, North Carolina's historic Sunset Cemetery, a microcosm of the Southeastern United States. The authors, an academic and a journalist, detail the lives and memories of people who are buried here, from Civil War soldiers to those who created the Jim Crow South and promoted the narrative of the Lost Cause. Featured are authors W.J. Cash and Thomas Dixon, whose racist novel was the basis for The Birth of a Nation. Drawn from historical research and local memory, it includes the tales of musicians Don Gibson and Bobby 'Pepper Head' London, as well as a paratrooper who died in the Battle of the Bulge and other ordinary folks who rest in the cemetery. A bigger responsibility is to give a voice to the silenced, enslaved people of color buried in unmarked graves. Cemeteries are sacred places where artistry and memory meet--to understand, we need both the tales and the tombstones"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Genealogy. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| LCCN | 2021044625 |
| ISBN | 9781476686387 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1476686386 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
Available Items
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | NC Stacks | F264.S54 H63 2022 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |