Silver Rights - Hardcover

Curry, Constance

 
9781565120952: Silver Rights

Synopsis

With an introduction by Marian Wright Edelman. This is a true story from the front lines of the civil rights struggle--the story of the Carter family of Sunflower County, Mississippi. African-American sharecroppers and the parents of thirteen children, Mae Bertha and Matthew Carter accepted their school district's 1965 "Freedom of Choice" offer at its face value and enrolled their seven school-age children in the formerly all-white schools of tiny Drew, Mississippi. SILVER RIGHTS tells what happened to them next. As noted civil rights activist and Children's Defense Fund president, Marian Wright Edelman says in her introduction, "This deeply moving book chronicles the pain and poverty in the lives of sharecroppers, their extraordinary grit, courage, and endurance." "We should be grateful to and inspired by the lives of the Carter family."--Booklist; "A book teeming with loud voices and heat and faith, and backbreaking work and timeless courage and honor."--Melissa Fay Greene, author of PRAYING FOR SHEETROCK. A LITERARY GUILD SELECTION.

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From the Author

notify many readers and supporter of illness of book's hero
Mae Bertha Carter, the hero of book Silver Rights has recently been diagnosed with cancer. Many of you have heard her speak and have come to love as well as respect her and her work in the 60s freedom movement we ask for your prayers and good wishes.

About the Author

Constance Curry is the author of Silver Rights, winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award in 1996. She lives in Atlanta.

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9780156004794: Silver Rights (Harvest Book)

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ISBN 10:  0156004798 ISBN 13:  9780156004794
Publisher: Mariner Books, 1996
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