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• catalog abstract ""Except for a massacre of five hundred settlers by renegade Creek Indians in the early 1800s, not much bad had happened during two centuries in Little River, Alabama, an obscure Lost Colony in the swampy woodlands of To Kill a Mockingbird country. 'We're stuck down here being poor together' is how one native described the hamlet of about two hundred people, half black and half white. But in 1997, racial violence hit Little River like a thunderclap. A young black man was killed while trying to break into a white family's trailer at night, a beloved white store owner was nearly bludgeoned to death by a black ex-convict, and finally marauding band of white kids torched a black church and vandalized another during a drunken wilding soon after a Ku Klux Klan rally. The Ballad of Little River is a narrative of that fateful year, an anatomy of one of the many church arsons across the South in the late 1990s. It is also much more - a biography of a place that seemed, on the cusp of the millennium, stuck in another time. When veteran journalist Paul Hemphill, the son of an Alabama truck driver who has written extensively on the blue-collar South, moved into Little River, he discovered the flip side of what the natives like to call 'God's country': a dot on the map far from the mainstream of American life, a forlorn cluster of poverty and ignorance and dead-end jobs in the dark, snake-infested forests, a world that time forgot. Living alongside the citizens of Little River, Hemphill discovered a stew of characters right out of fiction - 'Peanut' Ferguson, 'Doll' Boone, 'Hoss' Mack, Joe Dees, Murray January, a Klansman named 'Brother Phil' and his stripper wife known as 'Wild Child' - swirling into a maelstrom of insufferable heat, malicious gossip, ancient grudges, and unresolved racial animosities. His story of how their lives intertwined serves, as well, as a chilling cautionary tale about the price that must be paid for living in virtual isolation during a time of unprecedented growth in America. God's country is in deep trouble." from dust cover.".
• catalog contributor b11644952.
• catalog coverage "Baldwin County (Ala.) Rural conditions.".
• catalog coverage "Little River (Ala.) Biography.".
• catalog coverage "Little River (Ala.) Race relations.".
• catalog coverage "Southern States Race relations Case studies.".
• catalog created "2000.".
• catalog date "2000".
• catalog date "2000.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
• catalog description ""Except for a massacre of five hundred settlers by renegade Creek Indians in the early 1800s, not much bad had happened during two centuries in Little River, Alabama, an obscure Lost Colony in the swampy woodlands of To Kill a Mockingbird country. 'We're stuck down here being poor together' is how one native described the hamlet of about two hundred people, half black and half white. But in 1997, racial violence hit Little River like a thunderclap. A young black man was killed while trying to break into a white family's trailer at night, a beloved white store owner was nearly bludgeoned to death by a black ex-convict, and finally marauding band of white kids torched a black church and vandalized another during a drunken wilding soon after a Ku Klux Klan rally. The Ballad of Little River is a narrative of that fateful year, an anatomy of one of the many church arsons across the South in the late 1990s. ".
• catalog description "His story of how their lives intertwined serves, as well, as a chilling cautionary tale about the price that must be paid for living in virtual isolation during a time of unprecedented growth in America. God's country is in deep trouble." from dust cover.".
• catalog description "It is also much more - a biography of a place that seemed, on the cusp of the millennium, stuck in another time. When veteran journalist Paul Hemphill, the son of an Alabama truck driver who has written extensively on the blue-collar South, moved into Little River, he discovered the flip side of what the natives like to call 'God's country': a dot on the map far from the mainstream of American life, a forlorn cluster of poverty and ignorance and dead-end jobs in the dark, snake-infested forests, a world that time forgot. Living alongside the citizens of Little River, Hemphill discovered a stew of characters right out of fiction - 'Peanut' Ferguson, 'Doll' Boone, 'Hoss' Mack, Joe Dees, Murray January, a Klansman named 'Brother Phil' and his stripper wife known as 'Wild Child' - swirling into a maelstrom of insufferable heat, malicious gossip, ancient grudges, and unresolved racial animosities. ".
• catalog extent "xix, 235 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Ballad of Little River.".
• catalog identifier "0684856824".
• catalog isFormatOf "Ballad of Little River.".
• catalog issued "2000".
• catalog issued "2000.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York, NY : Free Press,".
• catalog relation "Ballad of Little River.".
• catalog spatial "Alabama Little River.".
• catalog spatial "Baldwin County (Ala.) Rural conditions.".
• catalog spatial "Little River (Ala.) Biography.".
• catalog spatial "Little River (Ala.) Race relations.".
• catalog spatial "Southern States Race relations Case studies.".
• catalog subject "976.1/21 21".
• catalog subject "African American churches Fires and fire prevention Alabama Little River.".
• catalog subject "African Americans Crimes against Alabama Little River.".
• catalog subject "Arson Alabama Little River.".
• catalog subject "F334.L55 H46 2000".
• catalog subject "Hate crimes Alabama Little River.".
• catalog title "The ballad of Little River : a tale of race and restless youth in the rural South / Paul Hemphill.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "Case studies. fast".
• catalog type "Little River (Ala.) swd".
• catalog type "text".