The Upshaws of County Line An American Family |
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| Author:
| Orton, Richard S. |
| Foreword by:
| Sitton, Thad |
| Preface by:
| Flukinger, Roy |
| ISBN: | 978-1-57441-571-1 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2014 |
| Publisher: | University of North Texas Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionGuss, 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 met some remarkable people there who changed his life.