Defiant
Growing Up in the Jim Crow South
New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2021]
Format: Book
Description: pages cm
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
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 -- Church-going time -- An incident to remember -- A new school -- 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.
Subjects:
Hudson, Wade -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights workers -- Louisiana -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American boys -- Louisiana -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Louisiana -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Coming of age -- Juvenile literature.
Mansfield (La.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Hudson, Wade -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights workers -- Louisiana -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American boys -- Louisiana -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Louisiana -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Coming of age -- Juvenile literature.
Mansfield (La.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: Ages 10+
ISBN:
0593126351
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C BIOGRAPHY Hudson, Wade | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Hudson, Wade | Edgewood | Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Hudson, Wade | St. Andrews Indoors | Children's Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references.