Silver Rights - Hardcover

Curry, Constance

 
9781565120952: Silver Rights
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1565120957 ISBN 13: 9781565120952
Verlag: Algonquin Books, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

With an introduction by Marian Wright Edelman. This is a true story from the front lines of the civil rights struggle--the story of the Carter family of Sunflower County, Mississippi. African-American sharecroppers and the parents of thirteen children, Mae Bertha and Matthew Carter accepted their school district's 1965 "Freedom of Choice" offer at its face value and enrolled their seven school-age children in the formerly all-white schools of tiny Drew, Mississippi. SILVER RIGHTS tells what happened to them next. As noted civil rights activist and Children's Defense Fund president, Marian Wright Edelman says in her introduction, "This deeply moving book chronicles the pain and poverty in the lives of sharecroppers, their extraordinary grit, courage, and endurance." "We should be grateful to and inspired by the lives of the Carter family."--Booklist; "A book teeming with loud voices and heat and faith, and backbreaking work and timeless courage and honor."--Melissa Fay Greene, author of PRAYING FOR SHEETROCK. A LITERARY GUILD SELECTION.

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Reseña del editor

Traces ten years in the life of one African-American family of sharecroppers from Mississippi, who suffered racist persecution when they enrolled their children in formerly all-white schools under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, but who courageously persevered.

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Verlag
Algonquin Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1565120957
ISBN 13 
9781565120952
Einband
Tapa dura
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
258
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