Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 50 upbringing 49 sharecropper 48 hardscrabble 44 boyhood 44 humble origins 43 semi autobiographical 43 humble beginnings 43 sharecroppers 43 racial prejudice 43 childhood 42 segregation 42 racial segregation 41 heartbreak 40 Jim Crow 40 segregated 40 drawl 39 backwoods 39 racial injustice 39 fatherless 39 chronicles 38 movingly 38 autobiographical 38 segregationist 38 Depression era 38 gritty 38 ghetto 38 Southerner 37 beginnings 36 twang 36 domesticity 36 grinding poverty 36 travails 36 tribulations 36 freed slaves 36 harsh realities 36 memoir 35 alienation 35 racism 35 Southern drawl 35 self pity 35 privation 35 unsentimental 35 Midwesterner 35 squalor 35 slavery 35 flatlands 35 suburbia 35 hardships 35 evocation 35 underclass 35 ghettos 35 loneliness 35 roots 35 indomitable spirit 34 poignantly 34 widowed mother 34 Brooklyn Dodgers 34 antebellum 34 homespun 34 Born 34 racially mixed 34 blue collar 34 elegy 34 bleakness 34 morality tale 34 Raised 34 interracial 34 overcoming adversity 34 bohemian 34 hitchhiked 34 immigrated 34 bigotry 33 triumphs 33 childhood memories 33 quintessential 33 barrio 33 blackness 33 soulful 33 pathos 33 desolation 33 milieu 33 homesickness 33 easygoing 33 racial discrimination 33 befriended 33 longing 33 harrowing 33 genteel 33 reminiscence 33 lifelong 33 emigrated 33 recounts 33 sweet natured 33 tomboy 33 underbelly 33 alcoholism 33 condescension 33 lived 33 neurosis 33 tale 33 chronicle