TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jawando,Will
TI  - My seven Black fathers: a young activist's memoir of race, family, and the mentors who made him whole 
SN  - 9780374604875
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Jawando, Will,
KW  - African American men
KW  - Maryland
KW  - Montgomery County
KW  - Biography
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Role models
KW  - Nigerian Americans
KW  - Montgomery County (Md.)
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Introduction -- Joseph Jacob -- Mr. Williams -- Jay Fletcher -- Wayne Holmes -- Deen Sanwoola -- Barack Obama -- Olayinka Jawando
N2  - "A memoir by the lawyer, activist, and county councilman Will Jawando"--; As a boy growing up outside DC, Jawando, who went by his Nigerian name, Yemi, was shunted from school to school, never quite fitting in. He was a Black kid with a divorced white mother, a frayed relationship with his biological father, and teachers who scolded him for being disruptive in class and on the playground. Here he looks back on the relationships with an extraordinary series of mentors that enabled him to thrive. Without the influence of these men, Jawando knows he would not be who he is today: a civil rights and education policy attorney, a civic leader, a husband, and a father. -- adapted from jacket
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