Complicated, insightful, instructive and moving--with devastating guilt over the cause of a cornerstone family member's death-a precocious, eleven year old tri-racial girl, comes of age in Morris Town, a small city in North Carolina in the early 1960s. Emilee shows us her sensitive and very personal perception as she witnesses and learns of history via the refined extended family members during the South's Civil Rights Movement led by her cousin, the NAACP President, Robert F. Williams-"RW"--in Morris Town, North Carolina. As Emilee tries to understand her layered world of death, difficult...
Complicated, insightful, instructive and moving--with devastating guilt over the cause of a cornerstone family member's death-a precocious, eleven yea...
Emily's Blues is an excellent portrayal of a young girl as she searched relentlessly for identity and a better life in an oppressive society. Her struggle to find dignity and self-worth should inspire girls around the globe to fight for the freedom and the respect they deserve. All females will find something relative to their lives in this emotional saga as Emily journeys from North Carolina, to New York, New Jersey, Washington, DC, and finally she makes an East to West odyssey finally in California where she does overcome, but not without experiencing violence, threats and fear. The story...
Emily's Blues is an excellent portrayal of a young girl as she searched relentlessly for identity and a better life in an oppressive society. Her stru...
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Many government agencies and institutions provide educators with curricula, lesson plans, data, and direction--all of it free. But to access this l...
