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The World of Patience Gromes Making and Unmaking a Black Community

Scott C. Davis

In 1970, Patience Gromes was an 83 year old widow who lived on State Street in Fulton, one of the poorest neighbourhoods of Richmond, Virginia. This non-fiction narrative traces the life of Patience Gromes, her family, her neighbours from the War between the States to the War on Poverty. Meet Patien...

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The Tucker Carlson Show

He introduced the book, saying it traced the life of Patience Gromes, a Black woman born in the late 19thcentury, and described her family's struggles through the early 20thcentury.

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There's a wonderful book called The World of Patience Gromes, by a man called Scott Davis. Patience Gromes was a woman born in the late 19th century, a black person who owned her own land, went to pia...

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He introduced the book, saying it traced the life of Patience Gromes, a Black woman born in the late 19thcentury, and described her family's struggles through the early 20thcentury.

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There's a wonderful book called The World of Patience Gromes, by a man called Scott Davis. Patience Gromes was a woman born in the late 19th century, a black person who owned her own land, went to piano lessons, married, migrated to Richmond, and the author traces her family life through the early 1960s.

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