Defiant : growing up in the Jim Crow South

Author

Wade Hudson

Call Number

• J 921 HUDSON (CEN, EAS, OSH, WSQ)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2021]

Physical Description

xi, 258 pages ; 22 cm

Audience

Grades 4-6 Crown Books for Young Readers

Summary

"The memoir of Wade Hudson, a Black man and Civil Rights activist who came of age in the 1960s at the height of the Civil Rights Movement"--

Contents

• Defiant dreams
• Civil rights and protests
• The Mary Street boys
• The beginning
• Starting a family
• Mischief
• Preschool at Miss Lizzie B's
• Hello, DeSoto Parish Training School
• The other Mansfield
• Making the grades
• TV, radio, and rock and roll
• Family crisis
• A team of our own
• Churchgoing time
• A new school
• An incident to remember
• The wedding of the year
• This little light of mine
• A new DeSoto
• The playwright
• The end of baseball
• Awakening
• Last year
• Graduation
• Goodbyes
• Moving on
• Joining the struggle
• Paying the cost
• Afterword.