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Summary: She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, first as enslaved people and then as sharecroppers. She left school at 12 to pick cotton, as those before her had done, in a world in which white supremacy was an unassailable citadel. She was subjected without her consent to an operation that deprived her of children. And she was denied the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HAMER, FANNIE LOU MILBaime, A. J. (Albert J.)
Summary: "Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a white newspaperman who covered lynching crimes in the Deep South at the blazing height of racial violence. Born mixed race and with very fair skin and straight hair, White was able to "pass" for white. He leveraged this ambiguity as a reporter, bringing to light...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022