Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir - Mamie Garvin Fields, Karen Fields

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Lemon Swamp and Other Places: A Carolina Memoir, Mamie Garvin Fields with Karen Fields, 1983, United States, AUTOBIOGRAPHY

"In Lemon Swamp, Mamie Fields remembers what blacks were not allowed to do in the South, and won't let anybody forget what they accomplished. When other teachers told her, "'Don't bother with the white people to get necessities for your school'...[her] attitude was 'He's a man and he speaks English. I will ask him,'"..."

(E.B., p. 256)