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020 $a9781401954215 (hbk.) :$cNT$875
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100 1 $aSoskin, Betty Reid,$d1921-.
245 10$aSign my name to freedom :$ba memoir of a pioneering life /$cBetty Reid Soskin ; edited by J. Douglas Allen-Taylor.
246 30$aA memoir of a pioneering life.
260 $aCarlsbad California ; New York City ; London :$bHay House Inc.,$c[2018]
300 $axvii, 205 pages,16 unnumbered leaves of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c24 cm.
505 0 $a"In Betty Reid Soskin's 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the lynching of African-Americans was a national epidemic, blackface minstrel shows were the most popular American form of entertainment, white women had only just won the right to vote, and most African-Americans in the Deep South could not vote at all. From her great-grandmother, who had been enslaved until her mid-20s, Betty heardstories of slavery and the times of terror and struggle for black folk that followed. In her lifetime, Betty has watched the nation begin to confront its race and gender biases when forced to come together in the World War II era; seen our differences nearly break us apart again in the upheavals of the civil rights and Black Power eras; and, finally, lived long enough to witness both the election of an African-American president and the re-emergence of a militant, racist far right. Blending together selections from many of Betty's hundreds of blog entries with interviews, letters, and speeches, Sign My Name to Freedom invites you along on that journey, through the words and thoughts of a national treasure who has never stopped looking at herself, the nation, or the world with fresh eyes"-- Adapted from book jacket.
600 10$aSoskin, Betty Reid,$d1921-
650 0$aRosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park (Agency : U.S.)$vOfficials and employees$vBiography.
650 0$aAfrican American women$vCalifornia$vEast Bay$vBiography.
650 0$aWomen political activists$vCalifornia$vEast Bay$vBiography.
650 0$aAfrican Americans$vCalifornia$vEast Bay$vSocial conditions$y20th century.
650 0$aCollege teachers' spouses$vCalifornia$vBerkeley$vBiography.