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Defiant growing up in the Jim Crow South

"The memoir of Wade Hudson, a Black man and Civil Rights activist who came of age in the 1960s at the height of the Civil Rights Movement"--

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Main Author: Hudson, Wade (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
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Hudson, Wade > Young adult nonfiction.
Civil rights workers > Louisiana > Biography > Young adult nonfiction.
African American boys > Louisiana > Biography > Young adult nonfiction.
African Americans > Louisiana > Social conditions > 20th century > Young adult nonfiction.
African Americans > Louisiana > Social life and customs > 20th century > Young adult nonfiction.
Civil rights movements > United States > Young adult nonfiction.
Coming of age > Anecdotes > Young adult nonfiction.
Mansfield (La.) > Biography > Young adult nonfiction.
Biographies > Young adult.
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Table of Contents:
  • Civil rights and protests
  • The Mary Street boys
  • The beginning
  • Starting a family
  • Mischief
  • Preschool at Miss Lizzie B's
  • Hello, DeSoto Parish Training School
  • The other Mansfield
  • Making the grades
  • TV, radio, and Rock and roll
  • Family crisis
  • A team of our own
  • Churchgoing time
  • An incident to remember
  • The wedding of the year
  • This little light of mine
  • A new DeSoto
  • The playwright
  • The end of baseball
  • Awakening
  • Last year
  • Graduation
  • Goodbyes
  • Moving on
  • Joining the struggle
  • Paying the cost
  • Afterword.

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