9780807072097-0807072095-Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family (Black Women Writers Series)

Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family (Black Women Writers Series)

ISBN-13: 9780807072097
ISBN-10: 0807072095
Author: Pauli Murray
Publication date: 1999
Publisher: Beacon Press
Format: Paperback 304 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780807072097
ISBN-10: 0807072095
Author: Pauli Murray
Publication date: 1999
Publisher: Beacon Press
Format: Paperback 304 pages

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Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family (Black Women Writers Series) (ISBN-13: 9780807072097 and ISBN-10: 0807072095), written by authors Pauli Murray, was published by Beacon Press in 1999. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Black & African American (Cultural & Regional, Women, Specific Groups, United States, Historical, Women in History, World History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family (Black Women Writers Series) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Black & African American books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.38.

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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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