The Last Children of Mill Creek

by Vivian Gibson

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Description Vivian Gibson's bestselling memoir of growing up in the 1950s in a segregated St. Louis neighborhood has been hailed by critics as "a spare, elegant jewel of a work" and "a love letter to Gibson's childhood."Vivian Gibson grew up in Mill Creek Valley, a segregated working-class neighborhood in St. Louis that was razed in 1959 to build a highway, an act of racism disguised under urban renewal as "progress." A moving memoir of family life at a time very different from the present, The Last Children of Mill Creek chronicles the everyday lived experiences of Gibson's large familyher seven siblings, her crafty, college-educated mother, and her hard-working fatherand the friends, shop owners, church ladies, teachers, and others who made Mill Creek into a warm, tight-knit African American community. In Gibson's words, "This memoir is about survival, as told from the viewpoint of a watchful young girla collection of decidedly universal stories that chronicle the extraordinary lives of ordinary people."
Winner of a Missouri Humanities award for literary achievement, The Last Children of Mill Creek is an important book for anyone interested in urban development, race, and community historyor for anyone who was once a child.

Author Biography

Vivian Gibson was raised on Bernard Street in Mill Creek Valley, and has lived in New York City and Liberia. She started writing short stories about her childhood memories after retiring at age 66. Her work has been produced as part of 50in50: Writing Women into Existence, at the Billie Holliday Theater in Brooklyn, and published in The St. Louis Anthology (Belt Publishing, 2019). She lives in St. Louis, Missouri

Details

  • ISBN 1948742640
  • ISBN-13 9781948742641
  • Title The Last Children of Mill Creek
  • Author Vivian Gibson
  • Format Paperback
  • Year 2020
  • Pages 150
  • Publisher Belt Publishing
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