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The Upshaws of County Line: An American Family
Richard S. Orton
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Description for The Upshaws of County Line: An American Family
Hardcover. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AJCR; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 254 x 15. Weight in Grams: 649.
Guss, Felix, and Jim Upshaw founded the community of County Line in the 1870s in northwest Nacogdoches County, in deep East Texas. As with hundreds of other relatively autonomous black communities created at that time, the Upshaws sought a safe place to raise their children and create a livelihood during Reconstruction and Jim Crow Texas.
In the late 1980s photographer Richard Orton visited County Line for the first time and became aware of a world he did not know existed as a white man. He went down the rabbit hole, so to speak, and met some remarkable ... Read more
Guss, Felix, and Jim Upshaw founded the community of County Line in the 1870s in northwest Nacogdoches County, in deep East Texas. As with hundreds of other relatively autonomous black communities created at that time, the Upshaws sought a safe place to raise their children and create a livelihood during Reconstruction and Jim Crow Texas.
In the late 1980s photographer Richard Orton visited County Line for the first time and became aware of a world he did not know existed as a white man. He went down the rabbit hole, so to speak, and met some remarkable ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of North Texas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Denton, United States
ISBN
9781574415711
SKU
V9781574415711
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About Richard S. Orton
Richard Orton was born in Nacogdoches and raised in Midland. He became mesmerized by photography after seeing an image materializing in a development tray. After two years in the Peace Corps, he settled in Austin, Texas, where he worked with nonprofits before becoming a photographer for the Texas House of Representatives. He moved back to Nacogdoches in 2007.
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