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"SIGNED"' BAREFOOTIN' Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom Unita Blackwell HC
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- Condition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Special Attributes
- SIGNED
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Subjects
- Biographies & True Stories
- ISBN
- 9780609610602
- Book Title
- Barefootin' : Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Cultural Heritage, Women in Politics, Civil Rights, Political, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Item Weight
- 17.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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When you're starting out on the road barefootin', you don't know where you're going. But you've got to step out, or you'll never get anywhere. And you keep on going, one step at a time. You have to have faith to go barefooted-you don't know what you might step on, what pain might come-but you keep on walking. And it makes you tough. Sometimes you skip and jump and run. Sometimes you get a thorn in your toe or trip over a limb, but there's no turning back. Barefootin' means getting mud between your toes and dancing on the water! Your spirit is in your feet, and your spirit can run free. In 1933, Unita Blackwell was born in Lula, Mississippi, a tiny town in the Delta where living was as hard as it gets, the stuff of the blues music that originated there. Like the other black people in Lula, Unita grew up in a sharecropping family, riding on her mother's cotton sack before she was old enough to pick cotton herself. Having left school at age twelve in order to make a living, Unita was trapped in menial jobs, and a bright future seemed beyond her reach. But Unita was forever changed in the summer of 1964 when civil rights workers came to her town of Mayersville, Mississippi. Electrified by the movement, Unita transformed her life from one of despair to one of hope, and in Barefootin' she details her inspirational rise from poverty to power, from silence to outspokenness, from oppression to freedom. From her rebirth as a freedom fighter and social activist to her tenure as mayor of her home town, to her work as an international peacemaker and presidential advisor, here are all the unlikely turns of Unita's remarkable life. The lessons she shares affirm and motivate us all, whether it's to remember that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, that world-changing movements are the result of many small steps, or that freedom means taking responsibility for our own lives and helping to make the world a better place for all. Infused with the language and rhythms of the Delta,Barefootin'is at once the stirring memoir of an exceptional woman and a guide to living a full and meaningful life from someone who knows how.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0609610600
ISBN-13
9780609610602
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50234066
Product Key Features
Book Title
Barefootin' : Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Women in Politics, Civil Rights, Political, African American, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
F350.N4b58 2006
Reviews
"Barefootin' is a vibrant, inspirational memoir from a woman of extraordinary courage, commitment, and creativity. This book is required reading for all those who want to make change from the grassroots up." -Marian Wright Edelman, president and founder, Children's Defense Fund "To read Unita Blackwell's enthralling life story is to be reminded of the remarkable courage and perseverance it took to bring down the prison walls of American apartheid. In laying out the record of her life and times, she underlines the central role played only yesterday in Mississippi by those least regarded by their oppressors." -Hodding Carter III, professor of public policy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and award-winning journalist "From Mississippi sharecropper to citizen of the world, Unita Blackwell is one of the key people who changed America during the civil rights years. Barefootin' is moving, inspirational, and funny. And it rings true. This book should be required reading for all who believe in the possibilities of democracy." -John Dittmer, author of Local People and winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History "There have been more acclaimed heroes of the civil rights movement than Unita Blackwell, but none more courageous and none more colorful. Her soul-stirring account speaks to the resilience and indomitable spirit of a poor black woman in the Mississippi Delta who simply refused to accept the role of a second-class citizen. Barefootin' is about the power of so-called little people. It is about how each of us has the duty to help make a humane world." -William F. Winter, former governor of Mississippi
Copyright Date
2006
Lccn
2005-034953
Dewey Decimal
323/.092 B
Dewey Edition
22
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