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Alone atop the Hill : The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press /

"Booker proposes the republication of Alice Allison Dunnigan's original, unedited autobiography A Black Woman's Experience: From School House to White House (unavailable except as a collector's item). Alice Dunnigan (1906-1983) was the first African American woman to break the co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dunnigan, Alice Allison
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, 2015.
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. History.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Part I. Those Early Years
  • Chapter 1. No Greater Thrill
  • Chapter 2. The Family Tree and Its Bittersweet Fruit
  • Chapter 3. Alone atop a Hill
  • Chapter 4. School Days
  • Chapter 5. Where There's a Will
  • Chapter 6. The Job Hunt
  • Chapter 7. The Ups and Downs of My First Job
  • Chapter 8. A Plunge into the Sea of Matrimony
  • Chapter 9. A Rugged Voyage Ends
  • Chapter 10. Moving On
  • Chapter 11. Wading through the Depression
  • Chapter 12. Seeking Identity, Experience, and Recognition
  • Part II. A Great New World
  • Chapter 13. Converging on Washington
  • Chapter 14. Breaking Down Race
  • and Gender
  • Barriers
  • Chapter 15. A Trip with the President
  • Chapter 16. The Civil Rights Fights of the Forties
  • Chapter 17. Profiles of Injustice
  • Chapter 18. The President Proposes; the Congress Debates
  • Chapter 19. Almost Pushing the Panic Button
  • Chapter 20. Freedom Fights of the Fifties
  • Chapter 21. Eisenhower's Pique
  • Epilogue.