Proud Shoes

Proud Shoes
Author :
Publisher : Beacon Press
Total Pages : 376
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780807072271
ISBN-13 : 0807072273
Rating : 4/5 (273 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Proud Shoes by : Pauli Murray

Download or read book Proud Shoes written by Pauli Murray and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders of NOW, Proud Shoes chronicles the lives of Murray's maternal grandparents. From the birth of her grandmother, Cornelia Smith, daughter of a slave whose beauty incited the master's sons to near murder to the story of her grandfather Robert Fitzgerald, whose free black father married a white woman in 1840, Proud Shoes offers a revealing glimpse of our nation's history.

Proud Shoes Related Books

Proud Shoes
Language: en
Pages: 376
Authors: Pauli Murray
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-06-25 - Publisher: Beacon Press

GET EBOOK

First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Re
Amelia Earhart's Shoes
Language: en
Pages: 456
Authors: Thomas F. King
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Rowman Altamira

GET EBOOK

Can modern science tell us what happened to Amelia Earhart? The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) has spent fifteen years searching fo
A Dog Wearing Shoes
Language: en
Pages: 42
Authors: Sangmi Ko
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Schwartz & Wade

GET EBOOK

Mini finds a dog in the park wearing shoes but no collar and begs to keep him, but soon she realizes that whoever put the shoes on him loves the dog, as well.
Take Off Your Shoes
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: Ben Feder
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-01 - Publisher: Radius Book Group+ORM

GET EBOOK

A success-driven CEO goes on a year-long journey of self-discovery in Bali in this memoir about rediscovering what’s truly important. A hard-charging CEO of a
Proud Shoes
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Pauli Murray
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-04-01 - Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Incorporated

GET EBOOK

Originally published in 1956, Pauli Murray tells the story of her grandparents, delving into the realities of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the pre-Ci