Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Proud Shoes by Pauli Murray ISBN: 0-8070-7209-5 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Awesome reading!!...
Comment: My Civil War history professor required us to read this for his class. I was always taught the horrific side of the Civil War and Reconstruction and I will always have that side in my memory. I never knew the real story of the few blacks that well off than their poorer counterparts. Pauli Murray should consider herself thankful for being allowed to grow up in her racially tolerant neighborhood. This should be required reading for high school and college students.
Rating: 5
Summary: Courageous Family Autobiography
Comment: Pauli Murray was reared in an extraordinary extended family of Northern Freedmen who had come South after fighting with the Union Army & Southern aristocrats-Indians-Slaves. Her great-aunt donated the land in Chapel Hill on which sits the University which denied her admission.
This is a story of the courage of the "Yankee Schoolmarms" (including her Grandfather)who brought education to the newly freed slaves, and the courage of those who sought the education he offered. Her aunts also followed their father in lives devoted to education. One of the most moving moments in the book is when her Aunt Pauline read the Supreme Court's decision to integrate in 1954, the year before her death. "Thank G-d, I have lived to see this day," she said.
Murray's own life was more than worthy of the ambitions they instilled in her. This is the way an autobiographical family story _should_ be written: if only such writers were thick on the ground.
 |
Title: Pauli Murray: The Autobiography of a Black Activist, Feminist, Lawyer, Priest and Poet by Pauli Murray ISBN: 0870495968 Publisher: Univ of Tennessee Pr Pub. Date: June, 1989 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
 |
Title: Voices of Freedom : An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s by Steve Fayer, Henry Hampton ISBN: 0553352326 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 February, 1991 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
 |
Title: Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel ISBN: 1565846567 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
 |
Title: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd ISBN: 0142001740 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
 |
Title: Angels & Demons by Dan Brown ISBN: 0671027360 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 26 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
