Never forget our people were always free : a parable of American healing
(Book)
Published
New York City : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 243 pages ; 24 cm.
Status
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction - Adult Non-Fiction
323.092
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323.092
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Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Nonfiction - Adult Non-Fiction
323.092
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323.092
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Atascadero Library - Adult Nonfiction - Adult Non-Fiction
323.092
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323.092
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction - Adult Non-Fiction | 323.092 | On Shelf |
Arroyo Grande Library - Adult Nonfiction - Adult Non-Fiction | 323.092 | On Shelf |
Atascadero Library - Adult Nonfiction - Adult Non-Fiction | 323.092 | On Shelf |
Cambria Library - Adult Nonfiction - Adult Non-Fiction | 323.092 | On Shelf |
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Subjects
LC Subjects
African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
African American politicians -- Biography.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
Jealous, Benjamin Todd, -- 1973-
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
United States -- Race relations.
African American politicians -- Biography.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
Jealous, Benjamin Todd, -- 1973-
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- Biography.
United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
United States -- Race relations.
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Published
New York City : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Includes index.
Description
""One of the nation's most prominent civil rights leaders" (Washington Post), a New York Times bestselling author, community organizer, investigative journalist, Ivy League professor, and former head of the NAACP, Ben Jealous draws from a life lived on America's racial fault line to deliver a series of gripping and lively parables that call on each of us to reconcile, heal, and work fearlessly to make America one nation. Never Forget Our People Were Always Free illuminates for each of us how the path to healing America's broken heart starts with each of us having the courage to heal our own.The son of parents who had to leave Maryland because their cross-racial marriage was illegal, Ben Jealous' lively, courageous and empathetic storytelling calls on every American to look past deeply-cut divisions and recognize we are all in the same boat now. Along the way Jealous grapples with hidden American mysteries, including: Why do white men die from suicide more often than black men die from murder? How did racial profiling kill an American president? What happens when a Ku Klux Klansman wrestles with what Jesus actually said? How did Dave Chappelle know the DC Snipers were Black? Why shouldn't the civil rights movement give up on rednecks? When is what we havecollectively forgotten about race more important than what we actually know? What do the most indecipherable things our elders say tell us about ourselves? Told as a series of parables, Never Forget Our People Were Always Free features intimate glimpses of political, and faith leaders as different as Jack Kemp, Stacey Abrams, and the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu and heroes as unlikely as a retired constable, a female pirate from Madagascar, a long lost Irishman, a death row inmate, and a man with a confederate flag over his heart. More than anything, Never Forget Our People Were Always Free offers readers hope America's oldest wounds can heal and her oldest divisions be overcome"--,Provided by publisher.
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