Category - Non Fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Excellent
Listed - A month ago
Views - 5
Ships From - Illinois
Est. Publication Date - Oct 2021
Seller Description
When did we lose them? It's a question that would haunt journalist Dawn Turner for much of her life. Her quest to understand what happened to her sister and best friend yields an unforgettable story about the forces that shape our destinies. They were three Black girls, Dawn, tall and studious; her sister, Kim, younger by three years and headstrong as they come; and Dawn's best friend, Debra, already prom-queen pretty by third grade. They bonded - fervently and intensely in that particular way of little girls-as they roamed the concrete landscape of Bronzeville, a historie neighborhood in Chieage's South Side, the destination of hundreds of thousands of Black folks whe fled the ravages of the Jim Crow South. These third-generation daughters of the Great Migration come of age in the 1970s, in the warm glow of the recent civil rights movement, It has offered them a promise, albeit nascent and fragile, that they will have more opportunities, rights, and freedoms than any generation of Black Americans in history, Their striving working-class parents are eager for them to realize this hard-fought potential. The But the girls have much more immediate concerns: hiding under the dining reem table and eavesdrepping on grown folks business, collecting secret treasures, and daydreaming about their futures - Down and Debra want to be deciors, Kim a teacher, for a brief, wondrous moment the girls are all giggles and dreams and promises of "frionds forever"
Additional Information
Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood
ISBN: 9781982107703
Publisher Description
A riveting, coming-of-age memoir about three Black girls from Bronzeville, Chicago that offers a penetrating exploration of race, opportunity, friendship, sisterhood, and the powerful forces at work t...
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