Seven Sisters and a Brother (eBook)

Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s (African American Author, For Fans of Bryan Stevenson or A Drop of Midnight)

Marilyn Allman Maye (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
Turner Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-1-64250-161-2 (ISBN)

Infos

i.Social media channels

a.SBAN (Swarthmore Black Alumni Network) LinkedIn group 273 members

b.Class of 1969 Facebook page 102 members

c.SBAN Facebook page 228 members

d.Swarthmore Alumni Virtual Connection 3626 members

e.Personal LinkedIn and Facebook networks





Swarthmore College Alumni Bulletin

50th Anniversary Celebration of SASS founding. Authors will be participating in presentations and panel discussion during Homecoming and Black History Month.

Proceeds from publication will go to an existing SBAN scholarship fund.

Minding Swarthmore, Shayne Lightner, 2014, independent sesquicentennial film on Swarthmore College - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQgn6qrP6wM&feature=youtu.be

[Section on the Takeover begins about 20 minutes in]

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Inhalt

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Takeover Day Zero: Boiling Point
Children of the Sixties
The Takeover Day One: Locked Inside
The Swarthmore Experiment
The Takeover Day Two: Raising Our Profile
Not in Kansas Anymore—Myra’s Story
The Takeover Day Three: Flavors of Support
We Had to Do Something!—Aundrea’s Story
The Takeover Day Four: Sunday Morning
SASS—On Our Own
Fearful to Fearless—Joyce’s Story
Photo Gallery
The Takeover Day Five: Meeting the Press
Not from Around Here—Bridget’s Story
To See the World—Jannette’s Story
The Takeover Day Six: Keeping Up Morale
Seeing the Unseen—Marilyn A’s Story
The Takeover Day Seven: Standoff
From Down South to Up North—Marilyn H’s Story
The Takeover Day Eight: Change of Course
Tao: Finding My Way—Harold’s Story

Epilogue
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
References

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.12.2019
• Zusatzinfo: historical b/w photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 1960s • 60's • African American • African American Studies • Bad Feminist • bar cabinet • Between the World and Me • Black • Black Power • black power sit-in • Black Studies • civil rights era • civil rights movement 1960s • eat a little better • equal rights movements • ERA • Friendship • higher education • Injustice • movements for social change • Peaceful protest • Pulse • Racism • resistance • Revolution • seven sisters and a brother • Stamped from the Beginning • Student activism • Swarthmore College • Ta Nehisi Coates • the civil rights movement • The New Jim Crow • Truth • warriors • When Breath Becomes Air
• ISBN-10: 1-64250-161-1 / 1642501611
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64250-161-2 / 9781642501612