01716cam a2200361 4500 298636428 TxAuBib 20050930120000.0 041007s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2004023409 9781574801606 1574801600 9781584301608 $16.95 1584301600 $16.95 DLC DLC DLC TnLvILS TxAuBib Rubright, Lynn, 1936- Mama's window / by Lynn Rubright ; afterword by Patricia C. McKissack ; illustrated by Duane Smith. 1st ed. New York : Lee & Low Books, 2005. 89 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. Very loosely based on a childhood incident in the life of the Reverend Owen Whitfield, an African American sharecropper and minister who was vice-president of the integrated Southern Tenant Farmer's Union in Arkansas in the 1930s. His dying mother's insistence leads an eleven-year-old black child to be raised by his disabled uncle, in the swamps of the Mississipi Delta in the early 1900s, and to recall her tireless work to fund a stained glass window for her church. 20051115. Glass painting and staining Juvenile fiction. Church buildings Juvenile fiction. Grief Juvenile fiction. Orphans Juvenile fiction. Uncles Juvenile fiction. African Americans Juvenile fiction. Mississippi River History 20th century Juvenile fiction. Mississippi History 20th century Juvenile fiction. Smith, Duane, 1974-, ill.