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Synopsis
This autobiography recounts the 20th century from the point of view of a mixed-race village barber in Davidson, NC who found himself, ironically, caught at the epicenter of the 1960's racial revolution. Picketed by Davidson College students on the eve of Martin Luther King's assasination for not cutting blacks' hair, he lost his business in the resulting ruckus. His story includes the charm of southern characters, inter-racial friendships, family ties, standing grudges all told with a lilt of faith by a master story-teller, practiced for years standing at the barber's chair, making the hopeless bearable.
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About the Author
Ralph W. Johnson is a 96 year old, Scotch African, living in Davidson, NC. He is self-educated and during his career cut the hair of gentlemen in all walks of life...governors, college presidents, bootleggers, ordinary town-folk... He prides himself on his ability to get along with all. He is a natural story-teller, a humorist and conservative.
Review
"...an unforgettable window into the South...an able record of struggle angainst racial, social and economic adversities, unbelievable today." -- Thomas A. Williams, Retired Professor, Davidson College
"...anguished...eloquent...testimony of a small town's disjointed world of Jim Crow and its wrenching destruction." -- Harry L. Watson, Director of the Center for the Study of the American South, UNC-Ch
"...some stories are precious, simply because they make us laugh, others because they force us to face ugly realities." -- Lake Norman Times, August 16, 2001
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- PublisherBlackwell Ink Inc
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0970271301
- ISBN 13 9780970271303
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages452
- EditorBlackwell Waller T.
- IllustratorBlackwell Anita K.
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David Played a Harp: An Autobiography
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Hardcover. Blackwell, Anita K. (illustrator). Presumed first edition/first printing. v, 452 p. Illustrations. A history of a college town, Davidson, NC, told in autobiography by an African-American barber who lived a 20th century of unparalleled change. Ralph Johnson, 96, caught in the poverty-ridden rule of Jim Crow customs, tells of struggles against disadvantage, unbelievable today, to get ahead. Of frugal, intense personal discipline, correspondence courses, self-schooling and hard work. As he moved into the post world war II years and his efforts began to find some success--his 7-chair shop was one of the largest in the south--he suddenly became the 1967 target of desegregation picketers who demanded he sacrifice his business to try to settle the centuries old curse of segregation. After a difficult, divisive struggle of a community with itself, Mr. Johnson's peacefully became the first publicly integrated barber shop anyone knew of in the South if not the nation and its demise followed shortly thereafter. Trying to understand what happened to him and why is a very personal puzzle in this eloquent, gripping life story as well as a life changing experience for any serious reader. Very good in very good dust jacket. Inscribed by Taylor Blackwell who did the Introduction. Seller Inventory # 60330
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