Dim Roads and Dark Nights: The Collected Folklore of Ruby Pickens Tartt

tales were collected from Blacks living in Sumter County, Alabama, before and after World War II. Some of the tales are secondhand slave narratives, and all were recorded well before the Civil Rights Movement. They thus reflect the early straggles and persisting proud humor of Deep South Blacks.

Author: Alan Brown (ed.) · Original publisher: Livingston University Press (Livingston, Alabama), 1993 (one bibliography styles the publisher "Livingston Press")

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