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(0)Alice Walker
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Language
English
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Ashland Books@Noon February 2019 Picks
Celebrate Juneteenth!
JCLS-Bear Creek Cluster Staff Winter Reads Picks
Juneteenth Reads for Teens and Adults
Celebrate Juneteenth!
JCLS-Bear Creek Cluster Staff Winter Reads Picks
Juneteenth Reads for Teens and Adults
Description
"In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave...
Publisher
Lookout Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"An anthology of Black resilience and reclamation. Born of a desire to bring together the voices of those most harshly affected by the intersecting pandemics of Covid-19 and systemic racism, Bigger Than Bravery explores comfort and compromise, challenge and resilience, throughout the Great Pause that became the Great Call. Award-winning author and scholar of the Black archive Valerie Boyd curates this anthology of original essays and poems, alongside...