The Salad Pickers: Journey South (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781329821828)

"The Salad Pickers" is a heartwarming memoir of author E. Jane Ball-Groom and her family's journey from New York urban streets to rural Warren County, North Carolina, making a fresh start, living and working amongst the relics of an antebellum plantation, during the audacious, early planning and development days of the historic, Soul City New Town Project, led by a Black development team. Capturing a time in history spanning the decade changing years of the late 1960s and early 1970s; Ms. Ball-Groom presents a fresh perspective of a visionary's attempt at changing the face of the rural south; and her family's journey to a new way of life. "The Salad Pickers" is a deeply personal, introspective story celebrating the indomitable strength of the human spirit.

Author: E. Jane Ball-Groom
ISBN-10: 1329821823
ISBN-13: 9781329821828
Publisher: Lulu.com
Language: English
Published: 10/07/2012
Pages: 346
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d