Go, Tell Michelle - African American Women Write to the New First Lady

Informationen zum Autor Barbara A. Seals Nevergold , a native of Louisiana, is a lifelong resident of Buffalo, New York. She is a retired educator, counselor, and community and political activist. She is cofounder of the Uncrowned Queens Institute for Research and Education on Women, Inc., and coauthor of the Uncrowned Queens: African American Women in Community Builders of Western New York series with Peggy Brooks-Bertram. In addition to the Uncrowned Queens, her other passion is family history research. Nevergold and her husband of forty-one years, Paul, have two children, Alanna and Kyle, and one grandchild, Naia. Peggy Brooks-Bertram is a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and has lived in Buffalo, New York, since 1986. She is a scholar on the life of Drusilla Dunjee Houston. In 2007 she published a long-lost manuscript of Houston's, Origin of Civilization from the Cushites , for which she received Honorary Mention in the Best Black Books for 2007. She is currently writing a biography on Houston. She is the mother of two children, Lillian Yvonne-Margaret, a poet and photographer, and Dennison Ivon Jean Bertram, an international photographer. Her husband Dennis Bertram is also an artist. Brooks-Bertram is also a community activist with interests in the health care of African American women. Barbara and Peggy are the recipients of the 2009 New York State Women of Excellence Award in Education. Klappentext Treasury of letters written by African American women to Michelle Obama.

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• Authors: Peggy Brooks-Bertram, A. Seals Barbara (EDT)/ Brooks-bertram Nevergold, Barbara Nevergold, Barbara A. Seals Nevergold, Barbara A. Seals Brooks-Bertram Nevergold
• Assisted by: Peggy Brooks-Bertram (Editor), Barbara A Seals Nevergold (Editor), Barbara A. Seals Nevergold (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.01.2009
• EAN: 9781438429182
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-2918-2
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Excelsior Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Ethnic Studies, Anthologien (nicht Lyrik), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Ethnic Issues