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Author:

Hudson, Wade, author.

Title:

Defiant : growing up in the Jim Crow South / Wade Hudson.

Publisher:

Crown Books for Young Readers,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xi, 258 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Hudson, Wade--Juvenile literature.
Civil rights workers--Louisiana--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
African American boys--Louisiana--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
African Americans--Louisiana--Social life and customs--20th century--Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements--United States--Juvenile literature.
Coming of age--Juvenile literature.
Mansfield (La.)--Juvenile literarure.--Juvenile literarure.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Defiant dreams -- 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 -- Church-going time -- A new school -- 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.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0593126386
9780593126387
059312636X
9780593126363
0593126351
9780593126356

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1236090474

LCCN:

2021021762

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FLPB224 -- Garnavillo Public Library (Garnavillo)

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

UHPB911 -- Milo Public Library (Milo)

UJPE911 -- Norwalk Easter Public Library (Norwalk)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)

SMPE094 -- Waverly Public Library (Waverly)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)