{"product_id":"the-last-trolley-stop-heber-bouland-9781500155056","title":"The Last Trolley Stop: Memories of Poverty, Bigotry, and Religiosity in Washington, D.C. and Rural Kentucky during the Great Depression","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Last Trolley Stop\u003c\/i\u003e, Heber Bouland's eyewitness account of the Great Depression, gives a candid and honest examination of a pivotal time in American history. His narrative has humor, the naughty, and the tragic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen President Roosevelt was inaugurated for the first time, Heber Bouland was a few weeks shy of his fifth birthday and too young to understand the many effects of the Great Depression that surrounded him.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBouland lived with his family in Takoma Park, at the northern edge of Washington, DC, a neighborhood of contradictions. A US senator lived there in a fine house. White homebuyers signed agreements not to resell to \"coloreds.\" Seventh-day Adventists, a nationwide religious minority, were dominant there. Yet this privileged, segregated community also included two small poverty-stricken ghettos inhabited by African-Americans-the very \"darkies\" the whites were so desperate to avoid.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVisits to his uncle's small tobacco farm in western Kentucky, where he witnessed toddlers laboring in tobacco fields, gave him a rural perspective of the depression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBouland saw firsthand the devastating effects of depression era bigotry, religious hypocrisy, and poverty-effects he accepted as a child, but that appalled him as an adult.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Heber Bouland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1500155055\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781500155056\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/13\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.23d","brand":"Heber Bouland","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44170092806399,"sku":"9781500155056","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4b051f9b-839a-413f-a7b0-bb7b6275e2f6.jpg?v=1689656750","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-last-trolley-stop-heber-bouland-9781500155056","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}