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1 online resource |
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Wisconsin studies in autobiography |
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Wisconsin studies in autobiography.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 and her brothers persevered through racial rebuffs and discrimination to find work. Barred by both her gender and color from employment in the city’s factories, Sylvia scrubbed floors, worked as a nurse’s aide, and took adult education courses. When a Milwaukee police officer killed her younger brother Daniel Bell in 1958, the Bell family suspected a racial murder but could do nothing to prove it - until twenty years later, when one of the two officers involved in the incident unexpectedly came forward. Daniel’s siblings filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city and ultimately won that four-year legal battle. Sylvia was the driving force behind their quest for justice. Telling her life story in these pages, Sylvia emerges as a buoyant spirit, a sparkling narrator, and, above all, a powerful witness to racial injustice |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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White, Sylvia Bell, 1930-
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| SUBJECT |
White, Sylvia Bell, 1930- fast |
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African American women -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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African American women
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Race relations
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Milwaukee (Wis.) -- Biography
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Milwaukee (Wis.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
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Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
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collective biographies.
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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History
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
LePage, Jody.
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| ISBN |
9780299294335 |
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0299294331 |
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1299557538 |
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9781299557536 |
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