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A Voice from the Civil Rights Era
Frankye Regis
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Description for A Voice from the Civil Rights Era
Hardback. Frankye Regis recounts her childhood as a black girl growing up in rural segregated Mississippi during the 1960s and 70s. Series: Voices of Twentieth-Century Conflict. Num Pages: 184 pages, 30 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBSM; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; BGA; HBJK; HBLW3; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
Frankye Regis recounts her childhood as a black girl growing up in rural segregated Mississippi during the 1960s and '70s. She was a farmer's daughter, one of eight children, who spent her summer vacations picking cotton in her father's fields. She wouldn't dare look a white person in the eye if she passed one on the street. Her high school was not integrated until 1980, 25 years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision stated segregated schools were illegal. Throughout her first-person memoir, Regis provides the history of the civil rights movement in an accessible manner to help students ... Read more
Frankye Regis recounts her childhood as a black girl growing up in rural segregated Mississippi during the 1960s and '70s. She was a farmer's daughter, one of eight children, who spent her summer vacations picking cotton in her father's fields. She wouldn't dare look a white person in the eye if she passed one on the street. Her high school was not integrated until 1980, 25 years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision stated segregated schools were illegal. Throughout her first-person memoir, Regis provides the history of the civil rights movement in an accessible manner to help students ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Series
Voices of Twentieth-Century Conflict
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780313329982
SKU
V9780313329982
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About Frankye Regis
FRANKYE REGIS is a freelance writer and editor. She has been a reporter and columnist for the New Haven Register, Cox Newspapers/Washington D.C. Bureau, and the Los Angeles Times.
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