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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Last Children of Mill Creek

The Last Children of Mill Creek

Gibson, Vivian

Paperback

Biographies GeneralMidwestRegional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1948742640
ISBN13: 9781948742641
Publisher: Belt Publishing
Published: Apr 20 2020
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.10
Language: English

A bestselling memoir of a vibrant childhood spent in a thriving St. Louis African American community before urban renewal changed everything.

Vivian Gibson grew up in Mill Creek Valley, a segregated working-class neighborhood in St. Louis that was razed in 1959 to build a highway, an act of racism disguised under urban renewal as progress. A moving memoir of family life at a time very different from the present, The Last Children of Mill Creek chronicles the everyday lived experiences of Gibson's large family―her seven siblings, her crafty, college-educated mother, and her hard-working father―and the friends, shop owners, church ladies, teachers, and others who made Mill Creek into a warm, tight-knit African American community. In Gibson's words, This memoir is about survival, as told from the viewpoint of a watchful young girl―a collection of decidedly universal stories that chronicle the extraordinary lives of ordinary people.

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