| Description |
viii, 201 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
The Sister I Never Knew -- Our Baby Sister -- Your Death Left Much Sorrow -- What a Difference a Year Makes -- Our Lineage Is a Strong One -- School Days -- Have Mamma and Daddy Gone Crazy? -- Not So Bad -- Church Life -- Thinking White -- High School Was Painful -- Buried Pain Will Come Up Again -- More Messed-Up Thinking -- The Year of the Debutante -- Bama -- Suicidal Thoughts -- The Family Business -- The Trials -- 4 Little Girls -- Justice -- Tracey -- Reconciliation -- Church Can Be a Painful Place -- White Church -- Unlucky at Love -- I Was the Wrong Color -- Getting Along -- What Does It Mean to Be Called a White Girl? -- Serving All the People -- Daddy's Dilemma -- Dogs Have Always Been My Closest Friends -- Crazy Stuff People Say -- Glory -- 9/11 -- Racial Issues -- Our Black Heritage -- We Aren't So Different -- Daddy Is with You Now -- Comfortable in My Own Skin -- So Long for Now -- The 4 Little Girls Memorial Fund -- The Morgan Project -- Sojourn into the Past. |
| Summary |
"Lisa McNair was born in 1964, one year after her older sister, Denise, was murdered in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Dear Denise is a collection of forty letters from Lisa addressed to the sister she never knew, but in whose shadow of sacrifice and lost youth she was raised. These letters offer an intimate look into the life of a family touched by one of the most heinous tragedies of the Civil Rights Movement"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
McNair, Lisa, 1964-
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African American women -- Alabama -- Biography.
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African Americans -- Alabama -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Alabama -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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| Genre |
Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
9780817321352 |
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0817321357 |
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