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Author Hudson, Wade, author.

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

Publisher New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2021]
©2021

ISBN 9780593126356 (hardcover)
9780593126363 (lib bdg)



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Description xi, 258 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Defiant dreams -- 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 -- Church-going time -- An incident to remember -- A new school -- 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.
Summary "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.
Audience Ages 10+
Grades 4-6.
810L Lexile
Reading Level Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.6 9 515723.
Subject Hudson, Wade -- Childhood and youth.
Subject(S) Civil rights workers -- Louisiana -- Biography.
African American boys -- Louisiana -- Biography.
African Americans -- Louisiana -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- United States.
Mansfield (La.) -- Biography.
Coming of age.
Young adult literature.
Autobiographies.
Added Title Growing up in the Jim Crow South
ISBN 9780593126356 (hardcover)
9780593126363 (lib bdg)