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The Last Children of Mill Creek
The Last Children of Mill Creek | Vivian Gibson
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Vivian Gibson grew up in Mill Creek, a neighborhood of St. Louis razed in 1955 to build a highway. Her family, friends, church community, and neighbors were all displaced by urban renewal. In this moving memoir, Gibson recreates the every day lived experiences of her family, including her college-educated mother, who moved to St. Louis as part of the Great Migration, her friends, shop owners, teachers, and others who made Mill Creek into a warm, tight-knit, African-American community, and reflects upon what it means that Mill Creek was destroyed by racism and "urban renewal."
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”Childhood is, for most of us, where our true home resides, and The Last Children of Mill Creek is a tribute to Gibson‘s, one told with deep generosity, humor, and love.
--Angela Mitchell, author of Unnatural Habitats and Other Stories

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I did what Mama told me to do: ”Move away so I can have someplace to visit.”

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Vivian is a careful observer of her large family and talented in reporting what she observed