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04058aam a22005418i 4500 001 95D51AE49F7611ECBC2E855C59ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220309010020 007 tb 008 211005t20222021meu d 000 0aeng 010 $a 2021048473 020 $a 1432895222 020 $a 9781432895228 035 $a (OCoLC)1274228565 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d GK8 $d BKL $d IFK $d IUK $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-il 050 00 $a F548.68.B76 $b T75 2022 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Turner, Dawn, $e author. 245 10 $a Three girls from Bronzeville : $b a uniquely American memoir of race, fate, and sisterhood / $c by Dawn Turner. 246 30 $a Uniquely American memoir of race, fate, and sisterhood 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Waterville, Maine : $b Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2022. 300 $a 577 pages (large print) ; $c 23 cm 340 $n large print. $2 rdafs 490 1 $a Thorndike Press large print Black voices 500 $a "The text of this large print edition is unabridged. Other aspects of the book may vary from the original edition." 520 $a "They were three Black girls. Dawn, tall and studious; her sister, Kim, younger by three years and headstrong as they come; and her best friend, Debra, already prom-queen pretty by third grade. They bonded--fervently and intensely in that unique way of little girls--as they roamed the concrete landscape of Bronzeville, a historic neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, the destination of hundreds of thousands of Black folks who fled the ravages of the Jim Crow South. These third-generation daughters of the Great Migration come of age in the 1970s, in the warm glow of the recent civil rights movement. It has offered them a promise, albeit nascent and fragile, that they will have more opportunities, rights, and freedoms than any generation of Black Americans in history. Their working-class, striving parents are eager for them to realize this hard-fought potential. But the girls have much more immediate concerns: hiding under the dining room table and eavesdropping on grown folks' business; collecting secret treasures; and daydreaming about their futures--Dawn and Debra, doctors, Kim a teacher. For a brief, wondrous moment the girls are all giggles and dreams and promises of "friends forever." And then fate intervenes, first slowly and then dramatically, sending them careening in wildly different directions. There's heartbreak, loss, displacement, and even murder. Dawn struggles to make sense of the shocking turns that consume her sister and her best friend, all the while asking herself a simple but profound question: Why? In the vein of The Other Wes Moore and The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, Three Girls from Bronzeville is a piercing memoir that chronicles Dawn's attempt to find answers. It's at once a celebration of sisterhood and friendship, a testimony to the unique struggles of Black women, and a tour-de-force about the complex interplay of race, class, and opportunity, and how those forces shape our lives and our capacity for resilience and redemption"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Turner, Dawn. 600 10 $a Turner, Dawn $x Family. 600 10 $a Turner, Kim, $d 1968-1992 $x Childhood and youth. 600 10 $a Trice, Debra. 651 0 $a Bronzeville (Chicago, Ill.) $v Biography. 650 0 $a African American women $z Chicago $z Chicago $v Biography. 650 0 $a African Americans $z Chicago $z Chicago $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women $z Chicago $z Chicago $v Biography. 650 0 $a Journalists $z Chicago $z Chicago $v Biography. 651 0 $a Chicago (Ill.) $v Biography. 650 0 $a Large type books. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 830 0 $a Thorndike Press Large Print Black Voices. 941 $a 2 945 $a lpt 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630013153.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220517010414.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=95D51AE49F7611ECBC2E855C59ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search