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Behind the Kitchen Door: A Shotgun Wedding

Minerva Wyche Blackwell

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Description:BEHIND THE KITCHEN DOOR…A Shotgun Wedding begins inthe rural countryside of North Carolina. It is the story of Alene, apretty, smart, teenager who has to endure a lot of tragedies in heryoung life and of her family’s struggles in America’s rural south from themid 1920’s through the Great Depression, dealing with racial segregationand Jim Crow laws. She has to grow up much too fast due to her mother’sdeath after giving birth to her baby sister. Alene who was thirteen andthe oldest of eight children helped her father to raise her younger siblingsuntil her father remarried. She gets pregnant by her boyfriend Julius atseventeen and tells her father, who beats her mercilessly. She and Juliusare forced to go to court and tell the judge where they had sex.They are made to marry. She leaves Julius because of beatings andabuse and move up north to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On her wayto Philadelphia she experiences fi rst-hand Jim Crow laws, starting withsegregated interstate trains cars. Once in Philadelphia she meets fouryoung women and they form a lasting friendship. Alene meets and falls inlove with Mitch at a jazz club. She becomes seriously ill with tuberculosis,and her father comes and takes her and her little boy back home. Herdoctor admits her to a sanitarium for treatment but later tells her andher family that the disease isWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Behind the Kitchen Door: A Shotgun Wedding. To get started finding Behind the Kitchen Door: A Shotgun Wedding, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: BEHIND THE KITCHEN DOOR…A Shotgun Wedding begins inthe rural countryside of North Carolina. It is the story of Alene, apretty, smart, teenager who has to endure a lot of tragedies in heryoung life and of her family’s struggles in America’s rural south from themid 1920’s through the Great Depression, dealing with racial segregationand Jim Crow laws. She has to grow up much too fast due to her mother’sdeath after giving birth to her baby sister. Alene who was thirteen andthe oldest of eight children helped her father to raise her younger siblingsuntil her father remarried. She gets pregnant by her boyfriend Julius atseventeen and tells her father, who beats her mercilessly. She and Juliusare forced to go to court and tell the judge where they had sex.They are made to marry. She leaves Julius because of beatings andabuse and move up north to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On her wayto Philadelphia she experiences fi rst-hand Jim Crow laws, starting withsegregated interstate trains cars. Once in Philadelphia she meets fouryoung women and they form a lasting friendship. Alene meets and falls inlove with Mitch at a jazz club. She becomes seriously ill with tuberculosis,and her father comes and takes her and her little boy back home. Herdoctor admits her to a sanitarium for treatment but later tells her andher family that the disease isWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Behind the Kitchen Door: A Shotgun Wedding. To get started finding Behind the Kitchen Door: A Shotgun Wedding, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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