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05537aam a2200649 i 4500 001 080AC20A9C8F11E981649E3E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190702010117 008 181017s2019 mnuacf 001 0aeng 010 $a 2018046158 020 $a 1517904455 020 $a 9781517904456 020 $a 1517904447 020 $a 9781517904449 035 $a (OCoLC)1055828650 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d MNE $d YDX $d DUD $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-mn $a n-us-mn 050 00 $a E185.97.J6925 $b A3 2019 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 084 $a HIS036090 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Johnson, Josie R., $d 1930- $e author. 245 10 $a Hope in the struggle : $b a memoir / $c Josie R. Johnson ; with Carolyn Holbrook and Arleta Little. 264 1 $a Minneapolis, MN : $b University of Minnesota Press, $c [2019] 300 $a x, 222 pages, 16 pages of plates : $b illustrations, portraits ; $c 24 cm 500 $a Includes index. 520 $a "Young Black people have repeatedly asked Johnson why she continues to work on social justice issues and how she manages to retain hope. She publishes this book hoping current and future generations will remember the strength of their ancestors, learn from her story, continue the struggle, and gain justice for her people"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Why do you continue to work on issues of justice? Young Black people often ask Josie Johnson this question, then, perhaps in the same breath, How do you maintain hope? This book, a lifetime in the making, is Josie's answer. A memoir about shouldering the cause of social justice during the darkest hours and brightest moments for civil rights in America--and, specifically, in Minnesota--Hope in the Struggle shines light on the difference one person can make. For Josie Johnson, this has meant making a difference as a Black woman in one of the nation's whitest states. Josie's story begins in a tight-knit community in Texas, where the unfairness of the segregated South, so antithetical to the values she learned at home, sharpened a sense of justice that guides her to this day. From the age of fourteen, when she went door to door with her father in Houston to campaign against the Poll Tax, to the moment in 2008 when, as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention, she cast her vote for Barack Obama for president, she has been at the forefront of the politics of civil rights. Her memoir offers a close-up picture of what that struggle has entailed, whether working as a community organizer for the Minneapolis Urban League or lobbying for fair housing and employment laws, investigating civil rights abuses or co-chairing the Minnesota delegation to the March on Washington, becoming the first African American to serve on the University of Minnesota's Board of Regents or creating the university's Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs with a focus on minority affairs and diversity. An intimate view of civil rights history in the making, Hope in the Struggle is a uniquely inspiring life story for these current dark and divisive times, a testament to how one determined soul can make the world a better place"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Family Values -- Fisk University: Racial Pride and Social Uplift -- A Growing Family, A Wider World -- Minneapolis -- The Urban League and Fighting for Fair Housing -- The March on Washington -- Black Women in the Struggle and Wednesdays in Mississippi -- Making Our Way -- Teaching Our History -- Colorado and New Challenges -- Back to School -- Home to Minneapolis -- Our Patrice -- The Eastcliff Gathering -- Diversity and the University -- A New Appointment, the Same Mission -- Retirement. 600 10 $a Johnson, Josie R., $d 1930- 650 0 $a African American women civil rights workers $v Biography. 650 0 $a Social justice $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Civil rights workers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a African Americans $z Minneapolis $z Minneapolis $v Biography. 651 0 $a Minneapolis (Minn.) $v Biography. 650 7 $a HISTORY $z United States $x Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) $x Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a African American women civil rights workers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799481 650 7 $a African Americans. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799558 650 7 $a African Americans $x Civil rights. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799575 650 7 $a African Americans $x Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799698 650 7 $a Civil rights workers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862721 650 7 $a Social justice. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01122603 651 7 $a Minnesota $z Minneapolis. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204260 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 651 4 $a Minnesota $x Authors. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 700 1 $a Holbrook, Carolyn, $e contributor. 700 1 $a Little, Arleta, $e contributor. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Johnson, Josie R., 1930- $t Hope in the struggle. $d Minneapolis, Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press, [2019] $z 9781452961385 $w (DLC) 2018061103 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190702015200.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=080AC20A9C8F11E981649E3E97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search