Silver Rights

Curry, Constance

ISBN 10: 1565120957 / ISBN 13: 9781565120952

Verlag: Algonquin Books, 1995

New Condition, Hardcover Book, Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2606060053

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.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Silver Rights
Verlag: Algonquin Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
Einband: hardcover
Zustand: New