Ota Benga under My Mother's Roof.

In Ota Benga under My Mother's Roof, Carrie Allen McCray (1913-2008) uses poignant and personal verse to trace the ill-fated life of the Congolese pygmy who was famously exhibited in the Bronx Zoo in 1906 before being taken in by the McCray family of Lynchburg, Virginia. Rooted in the rich hist...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors:	Simmonds, Kevin (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	University of South Carolina Press 2012.
Series:	Palmetto poetry series.
Subjects:	American poetry. American literature. American poetry American literature Poetry