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Author:

Elster, Jean Alicia, author.

Title:

How it happens / Jean Alicia Elster.

Publisher:

Wayne State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xi, 224 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Jackson, Addie--Fiction.
Jackson, Dorothy May,--1890---Fiction.
Racially mixed women--Tennessee--History--19th century--Fiction.
African American women--Tennessee--History--19th century--Fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Tennessee--Fiction.
Detroit (Mich.)--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.

Notes:

"[Follows] the fictionalized story of author Jean Alicia Elster's maternal grandmother, Dorothy May Jackson." -- back cover.

Summary:

Born in Tennessee in 1890, Dorothy May was the middle daughter of Addie Jackson, a married African-American housekeeper at one of the white boardinghouses in town, and Tom Mitchell, a commanding white attorney from a prominent family. We follow Dorothy May's experiences with race relations and class division, both as a child and later as a teacher. Dorothy May, choosing between her career and marriage to a man she barely knows, moves to Detroit. -- adapted from back cover

Series:

Great Lakes books series

ISBN:

9780814348697
0814348696

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1247836960

LCCN:

2021934632

Locations:

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)