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02824aam a2200445 i 4500 001 0240FD440FCD11ED9F7A169F34ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220730010109 008 200907t20212020enk 000 0aeng d 020 $a 0751581038 020 $a 9780751581034 035 $a (OCoLC)1193065276 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d ATXAS $d OCLCF $d TOH $d NJM $d OCL $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a e-uk-en $a e-uk-en 050 4 $a DA676.9.B55 $b L39 2021 082 04 $a 942.165 $2 23 100 1 $a Lawrence, Lee, $e author. 245 14 $a The Louder I will sing / $c Lee Lawrence. 264 1 $a London, England : $b Sphere, $c 2021. 300 $a 268 pages ; $c 20 cm 500 $a Originally published: 2020. 520 $a On 28th September 1985, Lee Lawrence's mother Cherry Groce was wrongly shot by police during a raid on her Brixton home. The bullet shattered her spine and she never walked again. In the chaos that followed, 11-year-old Lee watched in horror as the News falsely pronounced his mother dead. In Brixton, already a powder keg because of the deep racism that the community was experiencing, it was the spark needed to trigger two days of rioting that saw buildings brought down by petrol bombs, cars torched and shops looted. But for Lee, it was a spark that lit a flame that would burn for the next 30 years as he fought to get the police to recognise their wrongdoing. His life had changed forever: he was now his mother's carer, he had seen first-hand the prejudice that existed in his country, and he was at the mercy of a society that was working against him. And yet that flame - for justice, for peace, for change - kept him going. The Louder I Will Sing is a powerful, compelling and uplifting memoir about growing up in modern Britain as a young Black man. It's a story both of people and politics, of the underlying racism beneath many of our most important institutions, but also the positive power that hope, faith and love can bring in response. 536 $a Purchased with grant funds from the State Library of Iowa and Institute of Museum and Library Services 600 10 $a Lawrence, Lee, 600 10 $a Groce, Cherry. 600 10 $a Lawrence, Lee $x Family. 610 $a ARPA Grant 650 0 $a Black people $z Great Britain $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Parent and child $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 6 $a Parents et enfants $z Grande-Bretagne $v Biographies. 651 0 $a Brixton (London, England) $x Race relations. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Race relations. 655 2 $a Autobiography. 655 2 $a Biography 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Biographies $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l GAAX314 $d 20220730010130.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0240FD440FCD11ED9F7A169F34ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b HL6Initiate Another SILO Locator Search