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Author:

Sanchez, Eileen Harrison (Fiction writer), author.

Title:

Freedom lessons : a novel / Eileen Harrison Sanchez.

Publisher:

She Writes Pressa BookSparks imprint, a division of SparkPointStudio, LLC,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

ix, 245 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Women teachers--Louisiana--Fiction.
African American women teachers--Louisiana--Fiction.
African American football players--Louisiana--Fiction.
School integration--Louisiana--Fiction.
Nineteen sixties--Fiction.
Louisiana--Race relations--20th century.
Historical fiction.

Notes:

Includes book club discussion questions (pages 244-245).

Summary:

"Louisiana. 1969. Colleen, a white northern teacher, enters into the unfamiliar culture of a small southern town and its unwritten rules as the town surrenders to mandated school integration. Frank, a black high school football player, protects his family with a secret. And Evelyn, an experienced teacher and prominent member of the local black community, must decide whether she is willing to place trust in her new white colleague. Told alternatively by Colleen, Frank, and Evelyn, Freedom lessons is the story of how the lives of these three very different people intersect in a time when our nation faced, as it does today, a crisis of race, unity, and identity"--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

1631526103
9781631526107

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1126009143

LCCN:

2019942982

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ZYPE837 -- Harlan Community Library (Harlan)

EFPB605 -- Inwood Public Library (Inwood)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

WSPF215 -- Spencer Public Library (Spencer)