Silver Rights

preview-18
  • Silver Rights Book Detail

  • Author : Constance Curry
  • Release Date : 2014-11-04
  • Publisher : Algonquin Books
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 289
  • ISBN 13 : 1616205598
  • File Size : 66,66 MB

Silver Rights by Constance Curry PDF Summary

Book Description: “THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE CAN GIVE OUR CHILDREN IS AN EDUCATION.” —Mae Bertha Carter In 1965, the Carters, an African American sharecropping family with thirteen children, took public officials at their word when they were offered “Freedom of Choice” to send their children to any school they wished, and so began their unforeseen struggle to desegregate the schools of Sunflower County, Mississippi. In this true account from the front lines of the civil rights movement, four generations of the Carter family speak to author and civil rights activist Constance Curry, who lived this story alongside the family—a story of clear-eyed determination, extraordinary grit, and sweet triumph. “Dignity . . . is a quality displayed in abundance by the heroes of this tale . . . Mae Bertha cut a path for her children. Now it is their turn, and their children's turn.” —The New York Times “Alternately inspiring and mortifying, frightening and enraging . . . Silver Rights is a sure-to-be-classic account of 1960s desegregation.” —Los Angeles Times “A ‘case study’ of moral leadership . . . [An] instructive, even revelatory book.” —Robert Coles, author of Children of Crisis “The book has an immediacy, intimacy and emotional truth that history rarely reveals. It also unfolds with a simplicity of words and facts that make the Carters' courage, faith and love a reality any reader can share.” —Smithsonian “A solid contribution to the literature of recent American political history.” —Kirkus Reviews “Silver Rights is pure gold . . . Connie Curry shines a light on the civil rights movement’s unknown makers . . . A must-read.” —Julian Bond A LITERARY GUILD SELECTION

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Silver Rights books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Silver Rights

Silver Rights

File Size : 89,89 MB
Total View : 1264 Views
DOWNLOAD

“THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE CAN GIVE OUR CHILDREN IS AN EDUCATION.” —Mae Bertha Carter In 1965, the Carters, an African American sharecropping family wit

From Civil Rights to Silver Rights

From Civil Rights to Silver Rights

File Size : 68,68 MB
Total View : 2663 Views
DOWNLOAD

'From Civil Rights to Silver Rights demonstrates that the single most important challenge facing African Americans in the 21st Century is creating wealth,' said

The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement

File Size : 37,37 MB
Total View : 5085 Views
DOWNLOAD

The civil rights movement was one of the most important social justice movements in American history, and readers are sure to be captivated by this in-depth loo

Daddy King & Me

Daddy King & Me

File Size : 22,22 MB
Total View : 8500 Views
DOWNLOAD

Describes Martin Luther "Daddy" King's influence on the American political scene for over thirty years, and sheds new light on many of the movers and shakers in

The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement

File Size : 38,38 MB
Total View : 3721 Views
DOWNLOAD

Presents the history of the civil rights movement in the United States, from Reconstruction to the late 1960s, through excerpts from letters, newspaper articles