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Hope And Dignity

Older Black Women of the South

Emily Wilson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Temple University Press,U.S.

Published:17th Sep '92

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Contains stories of older black women. Containing photographs of these women, this title intends to offer some answers to the question of Black survival.Twenty heart-felt narratives of survival and courage

"[This] excellent book offers moving portraits of women whose lives have previously received little notice. Their attainments deserve to be recorded, for their sake and as a demonstration of how a repressed people live with dignity and hope."
Philadelphia Inquirer

"Hope and Dignity proves that there can be trust and truth between women; that a brutally racist society can damage but not completely deaden the giving heart."
Women's Review of Books


"An overlooked chapter in American black history earns fresh attention in Hope and Dignity.... Highly recommended."
Los Angeles Times

ISBN: 9781566390170

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1306g

224 pages