Sister : An African American Life in Search of Justice /

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Raised with twelve brothers in a part of the segregated South that provided no school for African American children through the 1940s, Sylvia Bell White went North as a teenager, dreaming of a nursing career and a freedom defined in part by wartime rhetoric about American ideals. In Milwaukee, she a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: White, Sylvia Bell, 1930-
Other Authors: LePage, Jody
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
White, Sylvia Bell, > 1930-
Race relations.
African American women.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Noires americaines > Wisconsin > Milwaukee > Biographies.
African American women > Wisconsin > Milwaukee > Biography.
Wisconsin > Milwaukee.
Milwaukee (Wis.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Milwaukee (Wis.) > Biography.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
History.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1 I Thought I Was a Nigger
  • 2 This Five Acres of Land
  • 3 I Was a Girl
  • 4 That Daddy of Mines
  • 5 Mama
  • 6 Jim Crow Schoolin'
  • 7 Galilee
  • 8 Teenagers
  • 9 My Roosevelt
  • 10 Goin' North
  • 11 Let Me Go Home
  • 12 What About My Career?
  • 13 Get a Job
  • 14 House on Palmer Street
  • 15 The Killing of Daniel
  • 16 Marches, Riots, and Martin Luther King
  • 17 Crawfish River Hill
  • 18 Freer in California
  • 19 Justice!
  • 20 Love Peoples.

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