Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League. Jonathan Odell

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Автор произведения Jonathan Odell
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      MISS HAZEL

      

ROSA PARKS LEAGUE

      by

      JONATHAN ODELL

      Copyright © 2014 Jonathan Odell

      Odell, Jonathan

      Miss Hazel and the Rosa Parks League/ by Jonathan Odell

      1. Women’s—fiction 2. African American women—fiction 3. Housewives—fiction 4. Civil Rights—fiction 5. Mississippi—fiction 6. 1950s—fiction I. Title

      Miss Hazel HC: 978-1-940210-02-5

      Miss Hazel PB: 978-1-940210-04-9

      Miss Hazel EB: 978-1-940210-05-6

      Interior and jacket design by Laura Klynstra

      Photograph of young women courtesy of Arlene Beard Norton

      Photograph of Hazel and Jonathan courtesy of the author

      First Edition

      All rights reserved. This is a revision of The View from Delphi, originally published by MacAdam/Cage, copyright © 2004.

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      To my parents, Faye and Odell Johnson

      Your stories have mattered

       CONTENTS

       Prologue

       Book One: Hazel And Vida

       Chapter One: A Man Who Takes Care Of His Own

       Chapter Two: The View From Delphi

       Chapter Three: A Deal With The Devil

       Chapter Four: The Way Of The Mule

       Chapter Five: Snowflake Baby

       Chapter Six: The Columns

       Chapter Seven: Mother And Child

       Chapter Eight: Up To The Big House

       Chapter Nine: The Trois Arts League

       Chapter Ten: Baby Moses

       Chapter Eleven: Fishers Of Men

       Chapter Twelve: Late Night Visitation

       Chapter Thirteen: Jesus In The Graveyard

       Chapter Fourteen: One Wing Hannah’s

       Chapter Fifteen: A Manger Scene

       Chapter Sixteen: Broken Things

       Chapter Seventeen: Hidden In Clear View

       Book Two: Lost Children

       Chapter Eighteen: The Keeper

       Chapter Nineteen: Switching Places

       Chapter Twenty: The Maids Of Tarbottom

       Chapter Twenty-One: Plots And Conspiracies

       Chapter Twenty-Two: Lillie Dee’s Funeral

       Chapter Twenty-Three: Dreaming Nate

       Chapter Twenty-Four: Word From Up North

       Chapter Twenty-Five: A Gathering Of Maids

       Chapter Twenty-Six: Missing Things

       Chapter Twenty-Seven: It’s Only Make-Believe

       Chapter Twenty-Eight: Many Mansions

       Chapter Twenty-Nine: True Stories

       Chapter Thirty: The Citizens’ Council

       Chapter Thirty-One: A Burned-Out Shack In The Heart Of The Woods

       Chapter Thirty-Two: Morning Picnic

       Chapter Thirty-Three: Fireflies

       Chapter Thirty-Four: The Mammy