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Figure 56: Sweeping in a neighbor’s yard

Ms. Waiters demonstrated yard sweeping in the yard of her neighbor, Ms. Cora  Robinson, the only person in the neighborhood who still swept her yard in the 1980s.  (Photo 1988)
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Photo courtesy, African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina
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Copyright Amelia Wallace Vernon. All rights reserved, 1998. Revised, 2007.

Photo is from Amelia Wallace Vernon, African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, 1993. Reprint. Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1995), p.169.