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This is a collection of personal letters and memories written by James Lusk himself to his mother. The book offers a glimpse into the life and thoughts of James Lusk who lived through some of the most significant moments of the 20th century, including World War II and the Civil Rights Movement. The letters touch on themes such as family, love, loss, and personal growth.
Get a glimpse into the past with this fascinating collection of letters and memories. James Lusk's firsthand accounts of life in another era provide a unique perspective on history and the human experience. From the joys of childhood to the struggles of war, this book is an amazing read for anyone interested in history, memoirs, or personal narratives. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
James Lusk served as Captain and Adjutant in the 6th Battalion the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) during the First World War, his outstanding bravery rewarded when he became a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in November 1915. On Christmas Day 1915 he was hit by a German trench-mortar while distributing cigarettes to his men and died in hospital at Amiens three days later having suffered severe facial injuries and a broken neck. His family published this memoir compiled from extracts from his diaries and letters a year after his death in December 1916. With a photographic portrait of Captain Lusk.
"Cotton obsessed, Negro obsessed," Rupert Vance called it in 1935. "Nowhere but in the Mississippi Delta," he said, "are antebellum conditions so nearly preserved." This crescent of bottomlands between Memphis and Vicksburg, lined by the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers, remains in some ways what it was in 1860: a land of rich soil, wealthy planters, and desperate poverty--the blackest and poorest counties in all the South. And yet it is a cultural treasure house as well--the home of Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Charley Pride, Walker Percy, Elizabeth Spencer, and Shelby Foote. Painting a fascinating portrait of the development and survival of the Mississippi Delta, a society and economy that is often seen as the most extreme in all the South, James C. Cobb offers a comprehensive history of the Delta, from its first white settlement in the 1820s to the present. Exploring the rich black culture of the Delta, Cobb explains how it survived and evolved in the midst of poverty and oppression, beginning with the first settlers in the overgrown, disease-ridden Delta before the Civil War to the bitter battles and incomplete triumphs of the civil rights era. In this comprehensive account, Cobb offers new insight into "the most southern place on earth," untangling the enigma of grindingly poor but prolifically creative Mississippi Delta.
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