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02351aam a2200373 i 4500 001 A87AA18E1BC811E5957CD299DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20200815010218 008 141220s2015 meu d 000 1 eng 010 $a 2014048769 020 $a 1410478440 (large print : hardcover) 020 $a 9781410478443 (large print : hardcover) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SKYRV $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 10 $a PS3602.A77585 $b J36 2015 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Barnett, LaShonda K. $q (LaShonda Katrice), $d 1974- $e author. 245 10 $a Jam on the vine $h [large print] / $c LaShonda Katrice Barnett. 250 $a Large Print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning, $c 2015. 300 $a 557 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Thorndike Press Large Print African-American 520 $a Ivoe Williams, the precocious daughter of a Muslim cook and a metalsmith from central-east Texas, first ignites her lifelong obsession with journalism when she steals a newspaper from her mother's white employer. Living in the poor, segregated quarter of Little Tunis, Ivoe immerses herself in printed matter as an escape from her dour surroundings. She earns a scholarship to the prestigious Willetson College in Austin, only to return over-qualified to the menial labor offered by her hometown's racially-biased employers. Ivoe eventually flees the Jim Crow South with her family and settles in Kansas City, where she and her former teacher and lover, Ona, found the first female-run African American newspaper, "Jam! On the Vine." In the throes of the Red Summer--the 1919 outbreak of lynchings and race riots across the Midwest--Ivoe risks her freedom, and her life, to call attention to the atrocities of segregation in the American prison system. --publisher marketing. 650 0 $a African American women $v Fiction. 650 0 $a African American journalists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Segregation $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Large type books. 651 0 $a United States $x Race relations $y 20th century $v Fiction. 830 0 $a Thorndike Press large print African-American series. 941 $a 1 945 $a lpt 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20150926033018.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A87AA18E1BC811E5957CD299DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search