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Author | : Betty Reid Soskin |
Publisher | : Hay House, Inc |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1401954227 |
In Betty Reid Soskin’s 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the lynching of African-Americans was a national epidemic, blackface minstrel shows were the most popular American form of entertainment, white women had only just won the right to vote, and most African-Americans in the Deep South could not vote at all. From her great-grandmother, who had been enslaved until her mid-20s, Betty heard stories of slavery and the times of terror and struggle for black folk that followed. In her lifetime, Betty has watched the nation begin to confront its race and gender biases when forced to come together in the World War II era; seen our differences nearly break us apart again in the upheavals of the civil rights and Black Power eras; and, finally, lived long enough to witness both the election of an African-American president and the re-emergence of a militant, racist far right. The child of proud Louisiana Creole parents who refused to bow down to Southern discrimination, Betty was raised in the Bay Area black community before the great westward migration of World War II. After working in the civilian home front effort in the war years, she and her husband, Mel Reid, helped break down racial boundaries by moving into a previously all-white community east of the Oakland hills, where they raised four children while resisting the prejudices against the family that many of her neighbors held. With Mel, she opened up one of the first Bay Area record stores in Berkeley both owned by African-Americans and dedicated to the distribution of African-American music. Her volunteer work in rehabilitating the community where the record shop began eventually led her to a paid position as a state legislative aide, helping to plan the innovative Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California, then to a “second” career as the oldest park ranger in the history of the National Park Service. In between, she used her talents as a singer and songwriter to interpret and chronicle the great American social upheavals that marked the 1960s. In 2003, Betty displayed a new talent when she created the popular blog CBreaux Speaks, sharing the sometimes fierce, sometimes gently persuasive, but always brightly honest story of her long journey through an American and African-American life. Blending together selections from many of Betty’s hundreds of blog entries with interviews, letters, and speeches, Sign My Name to Freedom invites you along on that journey, through the words and thoughts of a national treasure who has never stopped looking at herself, the nation, or the world with fresh eyes.
Author | : Anu Kumar |
Publisher | : Hachette India |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2022-07-25 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9393701121 |
A BRAVE QUEEN OF AVADH WHO LED HER KINGDOM DURING AN UPRISING. A 73-YEAR-OLD FREEDOM FIGHTER WHO STOOD HER GROUND AGAINST BRITISH SOLDIERS. A FEARLESS TEEN HERO FROM NAGALAND WHO DEFENDED THE RIGHTS OF HER COMMUNITY. These extraordinary Indian women, and others like them featured in this book, shared one common goal: to stand up against the British and fight for India's freedom from colonial rule. Fearless and feisty, these homemakers and princesses, politicians and poets, doctors and educators, and lawyers and activists marched in protest, endured hunger strikes, rallied supporters, went to jail and led from the front. From Sarojini Naidu to Matangini Hazra, from Aruna Asaf Ali to Rani Gaidinliu, from Muthulakshmi Reddi to Hansa Mehta, and from Annie Mascarene to Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, they showed amazing courage in breaking their shackles and facing grave challenges to liberate the country. Bringing together the inspiring life stories of more than 35 remarkable women, Her Name Was Freedom is a tribute to these brave torchbearers of India's independence movement, who left a lasting legacy.
Author | : Loki Mulholland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781629721774 |
Biography of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland follows her from her childhood in 1950s Virginia through her high school and college years, when she joined the Civil Rights Movement, attending demonstrations and sit-ins. She also participated in the Freedom Rides of 1961 and was arrested and imprisoned. Her life has been spent standing up for human rights.
Author | : Kelly Harris-DeBerry |
Publisher | : Xavier Review Press |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2020-07-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781883275297 |
Author | : Jaycee Dugard |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2017-07-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1501147633 |
"In the follow-up to ... A Stolen Life, [kidnapping survivor] Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Afua Cooper |
Publisher | : Kids Can Press Ltd |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2021-01-06 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1525308289 |
The remarkable story of the young slave Phillis Wheatley, America's first black poet.
Author | : Jax Miller |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2015-06-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0008132798 |
A heart-stopping debut thriller about a woman named Freedom, who will stop at nothing to save the daughter she only knew for two minutes and seventeen seconds.
Author | : Maggie Nelson |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1473581087 |
'One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation' OLIVIA LAING What can freedom really mean? In this invigorating, essential book, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience or talk about the concept in ways that are responsive to our divided world. Drawing on pop culture, theory and the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, she follows freedom - with all its complexities - through four realms: art, sex, drugs and climate. On Freedom offers a bold new perspective on the challenging times in which we live. 'Tremendously energising' Guardian 'This provocative meditation...shows Nelson at her most original and brilliant' New York Times 'Nelson is such a friend to her reader, such brilliant company... Exhilarating' Literary Review * A New York Times Notable Book * * A Guardian and TLS 'Books of 2021' Pick *
Author | : Ashley Bryan |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2016-09-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1481456911 |
Newbery Honor Book Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, Ashley Bryan offers a moving and powerful picture book that contrasts the monetary value of a person with the priceless value of life experiences and dreams that a slave owner could never take away. Imagine being looked up and down and being valued as less than chair. Less than an ox. Less than a dress. Maybe about the same as…a lantern. This gentle yet deeply powerful way goes to the heart of how a slave is given a monetary value by the slave owner, tempering this with the one thing that can’t be bought or sold: dreams. Inspired by the actual will of a plantation owner that lists the worth of each and every one of his “workers,” the author has created collages around that document, and others like it. Through fierce paintings and expansive poetry, he imagines and interprets each person’s life on the plantation, as well as the life their owner knew nothing about—their dreams and pride in knowing that they were worth far more than an overseer or madam ever would guess. Visually epic, and never before done, this stunning picture book is unlike anything you’ve seen.
Author | : Penny Suzanne Roberts |
Publisher | : Tate Publishing |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2012-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1613468172 |
If you are reading this, I have either accomplished my escape or I am at the feet of my heavenly Father. Either way, I am far away from here, and everything is as it should be. I am free. I write these words on pieces of paper for my means of escape. With this pen and paper, I find my sanity. I am at peace to go on. My story will not go untold. My name is Izabella Liberte, and this is my story. When four sisters discover a collection of old letters in their father's private study, they stumble upon a mystery that has been unsolved for years. The letters tell the story of Izabella Liberte, a beautiful young woman who was ripped from her life of privilege to pay a debt not her own. After she is abducted, Izabella is forced to fight for her independence as she tries to make sense of what happened to her life and discover why her freedom was suddenly stolen from her. Izabella must confront her own decisions and learn to survive in this new world or forever be lost to a life of obsession and entrapment. In "My Name Is Freedom, four sisters learn of a hundred-year-old mystery and eagerly endeavor to learn the fate of Izabella Liberte. From the hidden letters they find, can the sisters piece together the mystery of Izabella's sudden disappearance, or will the question of what happened to Izabella forever remain unanswered?"