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This 6 page paper reviews the book by author Melton Alonza McLaurin. This paper details three people and the way they had a particular influence on MCLaurin. No additional sources are listed.
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Store, Inc. by 11/2010 Please "Separate pasts: growing up
white in the segregated South" is the story of the authors, Melton Alonza McLaurins, life growing up in Wade North Carolina in the 1940s and 1950s. Many people influenced
McLaurin. Among the more prominent influences in his life, however, three in particular stand out. Those three were his grandfather, a black man called "Street", and a black
boy just one year younger than McLaughlin called Bobo. As is the case for many young boys, McLaurins grandfather was of tremendous influence
in shaping his beliefs and philosophies. The grandfather ran a general store in the community where McLaurin grew up. That store, in many ways, was the center of
McLaurins life. He went there everyday after school, spent much of the summer there as well, and even worked there once he became old enough to do various odd
jobs or to work the cash register. At the center of all of those experiences was the grandfather. McLaurin describes his grandfather
as "a complex man, intelligent, proud, aloof, and supremely confident in his own abilities" (111). McLaurin also describes his grandfather as a sad man persistently battling life without every
really winning or losing. In the community McLaurins grandfather was an influential man and one to whom the black community members
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