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Title Fed up : the high costs of cheap food / Dale Finley Slongwhite ; foreword by Jeannie Economos.
Author Slongwhite, Dale Finley, 1951-
Publication Info. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014]
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Fourth Floor  FLORIDA 331.6396 SLO    Lib Use Only
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Description xxiii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary This book provides an intimate look at the lives of former African-American farmworkers who labored in central Florida's farms along the shores of Lake Apopka. The author familiarizes readers with the history of Lake Apopka and the social and environmental injustice centered on food production that has taken place there.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Background of Lake Apopka: deadly assault -- "Hard to believe unless you lived through it" : William Gladden -- "Too many funerals" : Linda Lee -- "Not enough cheekbones to hold your tears" : Geraldean Matthew -- "God made up for my lost children" : Earma Peterson -- "I might have been an actress" : Louise Hamilton -- "Learning the hard way" : Mary Ann Robinson -- "I wish they'd bring the farms back" : Betty Lou Woods -- "My daddy went blind in the fields": Robert Griffin -- "Education as the way out": mary Tinsley -- "I never will forget it" : Betty Dubose -- "Improving the lives of others" : Tirso Moreno -- The memorial quilts -- Epilogue: View from the south side.
Subject African American agricultural laborers -- Florida -- History.
Agricultural laborers -- Florida -- History.
African Americans -- Florida -- History.
Food industry and trade -- Florida -- Employees.
Food supply -- Social aspects.
ocls african american adult books
Added Author Economos, Jeannie.
ISBN 9780813049847 : $24.95
0813049849
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