Silver Rights

English

ISBN: 1565120957

EAN: 9781565120952

Category: Social Science / Sociology / General/Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies/Biography & Autobiography / General/Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General/

Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Release Date: 10/31/1995

Synopsis: With an introduction by Marian Wright Edelman. This is a true story from the front lines of the civil rights struggle--the story of the Carter family of Sunflower County, Mississippi. African-American sharecroppers and the parents of thirteen children, Mae Bertha and Matthew Carter accepted their school districts 1965 Freedom of Choice offer at its face value and enrolled their seven school-age children in the formerly all-white schools of tiny Drew, Mississippi. SILVER RIGHTS tells what happened to them next. As noted civil rights activist and Childrens Defense Fund president, Marian Wright Edelman says in her introduction, This deeply moving book chronicles the pain and poverty in the lives of sharecroppers, their extraordinary grit, courage, and endurance. We should be grateful to and inspired by the lives of the Carter family.--Booklist; A book teeming with loud voices and heat and faith, and backbreaking work and timeless courage and honor.--Melissa Fay Greene, author of PRAYING FOR SHEETROCK. A LITERARY GUILD SELECTION.

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Silver Rights

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.03 inches

Width: 6.34 inches

Length: 8.24 inches

Weight: 18.13 oz

Pages: 288