Quakertown
- ISBN-10
- 0452283361
- ISBN-13
- 9780452283367
- Category
- African American neighborhoods
- Pages
- 308
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-06-14
- Publisher
- Plume
- Author
- Lee Martin
Description
In Quakertown, award-winning author Martin travels back to 1920s Texas to tell the story of a flourishing black community that was segregated from its white neighbors--and of the remarkable gardener, Little Washington Jones, who was asked to make a heartbreaking choice.
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