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The title, WILMER and the use of Wilma throughout the book, introduces the bigotry that exists between the cultural populous in America. Just as the title given to her surrogate mother, Mammie is indicative of her place in society. Being raised by a Negro Mammie gave Wilma her love of this family who adopted her and made her feel as though she was an equal with her Negro counter-parts. Others in the white society didn’t like having a young white girl in close friendships with Negros, even to the point of threatening the life of her best friend and Mammie’s son, Cletus Lee. As the story leads from one climax to the next, the reader is given hints to the outcome and at times is given oppor...
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Chiefly a record of some of the ancestors of Philip A. Kalsch. He was born 29 Dec 1878 in Delphos, Ohio, to Peter Kalsch and Magdalena Cecilia Ley. He married M. Barbara Franck. She was born 7 Nov 1887 in Sharpsburg, Ohio, to Valentine Franck and Elizabeth Schneider. He died 11 July 1958 in Portland, Oregon. She died 10 Jun 1976 in Forest Grove, Oregon.
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" ThE Willis house was very quiet. The comfortable screened porch was deserted, though a sweater in the hammock and a box of gay paper dolls on the floor showed that it had served as a play-space recently. Inside, not a door banged, not a footfall sounded. The late afternoon June sunshine streamed in through the hall window and made a broad band to the stairway which was in the shadow. The light touched the heads of three girls huddled closely together in the cushioned window-seat and turned the hair of one to gleaming, burnished golden red, another to a fairy web of spun yellow silk and searched out the faint copper tint in the dark locks of the third. The girls sat motionless, their faces ...