A Voice From The Civil Rights Era

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext 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 place the personal narrative in historical context. Original and historical photographs are provided to help readers better understand the experience of being in someone else's shoes. Zusammenfassung Original and historical photographs are provided to help readers better understand the experience of being in someone else's shoes. This is the third book in a new series! Voices of Twentieth Century Conflict! directed towards high school students.

Product details

• Authors: Frankye Regis, Frankye V. Regis, Regis Frankye
• Publisher: Abc Clio Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2004
• EAN: 9780313329982
• ISBN: 978-0-313-32998-2
• No. of pages: 153
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Voices of Twentieth-Century Conflict; Voices of Twentieth Century Co; Voices of Twentieth-Century Conflict
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Mississippi, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Human Rights, Autobiography: general, American History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, c 1960 to c 1970, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, History of the Americas, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1960 to c 1969, Human rights, civil rights, c 1970 to c 1980, Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences