The Petal paper. [volume], July 11, 1963, Page 4, Image 4

About The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??

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THE DEERFIELD COLORING BOOK ^
J Illustrated by Alice Untermyer, with text by her Mother fj
"Grown-ups of Deerfield
This is true:
Children of Deerfield
Are wotching you."
Out of the continuing contro
versy on integrated housing in
suburban Deerfield, III., comes
a 32 page coloring book, illus
trated by a blond, green-eyed
eighth grader at the Wilmot
School.
The text is written by her
mother, a poet and an associate
editor of ISSUES. Mrs. Untermy
er's poetry has been published in
P. D. East's Petal Paper in Missis
sippi, the New Mexico Quarterly,
and ISSUES.
■ I
1 Although a true story, the
I DEERFIELD Coloring BOOK is
| neither harsh nor vindictive as it
I faces what really happened in the
} all-white suburb of Deerfield, III
I inois, when a Park District bond
I issue referendum was called in
J the minimum time allowed by
I law, and resulted in the condem
M nation of the platted and approv
J ed subdivision, in which the
I builder intended to sell houses to
I Whites and to Negroes.
I _ The delightful drawings show
I the purposes and pressures that
I caused the outwardly peaceful
people in the Village of Deerfield
to become a divided town, short
ly before Christmas in 1949.
Susy and Sandra face the
chaos of racial hatred in deer
field, regarding it as one of the
unpleasant and irrelevant adult
interruptions to their more im
portant responsibility of being
children and growing up in an
American town.
This slim little book is prepar
ed especially for children to read
and learn and live by. Although
it has humor it is not a joke book,
and once it has been carefully
colored, the DEERFIELD Color
ing BOOK will remain a reference
of real life and human relations
history.
| ISSUES
Box 32!
Highland Park, III.
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ADDRESS_
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Please send me_copies of THE DEERFIELD COLORING BOOK
at $2.00 per copy.
TOTAL INCLUDED $_.
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