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Author Hudson, Wade, author.

Title Defiant : growing up in the Jim Crow South / Wade Hudson.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2021]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2166394~S1
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 Nichols Juvenile Biography  J BIO HUDSON    AVAILABLE
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Description xi, 258 pages ; 22 cm
Note Ages 10+ Crown Books for Young Readers
Grades 4-6 Crown Books for Young Readers
810L Lexile
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.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 255).
Audience Ages 10+ Crown Books for Young Readers
Grades 4-6 Crown Books for Young Readers
Subject Hudson, Wade -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights workers -- Louisiana -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African American boys -- Louisiana -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Louisiana -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Coming of age -- Juvenile literature.
Mansfield (La.) -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Mansfield (La.) -- Juvenile literature.
Added Title Growing up in the Jim Crow South
ISBN 9780593126356 (hardcover)
9780593126363 (library binding)
9780593126387 (trade paperback)
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