Defiant : growing up in the Jim Crow South
(2021)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
Y/BIOGRAPHY/323/HUDSON,W

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Kids' Biographies Y/BIOGRAPHY/323/HUDSON,W Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2021]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

xi, 258 pages ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780593126356, 0593126351 :, 0593126351, 9780593126363, 059312636X, 9780593126387, 0593126386, 9780593126356
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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 -- Churchgoing 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

"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"--

Ages 10+

Grades 4-6

810L

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