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

Author/creator Hudson, Wade author.
Format Book and Print
EditionFirst edition.
Publication Info New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2021]
Copyright Notice ©2021
Descriptionxi, 258 pages ; 22 cm
Subject(s)
Portion of title Growing up in the Jim Crow South
Contents 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 -- 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.
Abstract "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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (page 255).
Interest age level Ages 10 and up
Interest grade level Grades 6 and up
Audience 810 Lexile
Issued in other formOnline version: Hudson, Wade. Defiant New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, 2021 9780593126370
Genre/formBiographies.
Genre/formJuvenile works.
Genre/formBiographies.
LCCN 2021021762
ISBN9780593126356 hardcover
ISBN0593126351 hardcover
ISBN9780593126363 library binding
ISBN059312636X library binding
ISBNelectronic book
ISBN9780593126387 (trade paperback)
ISBN0593126386 (trade paperback)

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