1959 - Softcover

Davis, Thulani

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802138314 ISBN 13: 9780802138316

Verlag: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Davis Thulani

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Reseña del editor:

Mickey and Sylvia, two black girls living in a small Virginia town, find their lives turned upside when the civil rights movement arrives in town in the form of eight courageous black college students. Reprint.

Reseña del editor:

Thulani Davis's 1959 is a powerful, poignant coming-of-age novel that captures a dramatic moment in American history as clearly as a photograph. It's the summer of 1959 and Willie Tarrant of Turner, Virginia, is twelve. Her father and other adults in the town are worried about integration -- how it will affect their children's safety and the quality of their education -- but for Willie it's just another problem she's going to have to deal with, like her chores and beginning to go out with boys. Willie and her friends -- kids from good families with good grades -- are being groomed to be sent in the first wave. Before this can happen, though, eight black college students, wearing suits and fresh haircuts, go into the Woolworth's lunch counter -- changing everything.

In 1959 one of the most talented writers of her generation has written a book that will become a classic of civil rights literature.

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• Verlag: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0802138314
• ISBN 13: 9780802138316
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304