Proud Shoes

Proud Shoes
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Publisher : Beacon Press
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : 9780807072271
ISBN-13 : 0807072273
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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.


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