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049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aJealous, Benjamin Todd,
_d1973-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aNever forget our people were always free :
_ba parable of American healing /
_cBen Jealous.
246 3 0 _aParable of American healing
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bAmistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
_c[2023]
264 4 _c©2023
300 _ax, 243 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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520 _a"'One of the nation's most prominent civil rights leaders' (Washington Post), a New York Times bestselling author, community organizer, investigative journalist, Ivy League professor, and former head of the NAACP, Ben Jealous draws from a life lived on America's racial fault line to deliver a series of gripping and lively parables that call on each of us to reconcile, heal, and work fearlessly to make America one nation. Never Forget Our People Were Always Free illuminates for each of us how the path to healing America's broken heart starts with each of us having the courage to heal our own. The son of parents who had to leave Maryland because their cross-racial marriage was illegal, Ben Jealous' lively, courageous and empathetic storytelling calls on every American to look past deeply-cut divisions and recognize we are all in the same boat now. Along the way Jealous grapples with hidden American mysteries, including: Why do white men die from suicide more often than black men die from murder? How did racial profiling kill an American president? What happens when a Ku Klux Klansman wrestles with what Jesus actually said? How did Dave Chappelle know the DC Snipers were Black? Why shouldn't the civil rights movement give up on rednecks? When is what we have collectively forgotten about race more important than what we actually know? What do the most indecipherable things our elders say tell us about ourselves? Told as a series of parables, Never Forget Our People Were Always Free features intimate glimpses of political, and faith leaders as different as Jack Kemp, Stacey Abrams, and the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu and heroes as unlikely as a retired constable, a female pirate from Madagascar, a long lost Irishman, a death row inmate, and a man with a confederate flag over his heart. More than anything, Never Forget Our People Were Always Free offers readers hope America's oldest wounds can heal and her oldest divisions be overcome"--
_cProvided by publisher.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-243).
505 0 _aTrouble in the air -- Who is my family? -- History as a riddle -- Discovering the roots of race -- Making it to twenty-one -- Finding friends in Mississippi -- The personal perils of peacemaking -- Making the wounded whole -- A pandemic ignored -- Beyond black and white -- A forgotten history of race -- Politics and betrayal in black and white -- Serial (killer) mistakes -- One in the White House, one million or two in the big house -- The NAACP in the whitest state in the union -- Courage and solidarity -- The first state south of the Mason-Dixon -- A race war begins and ends -- An American parable -- A holler from the hollers -- Rising up together.
600 1 0 _aJealous, Benjamin Todd,
_d1973-
650 0 _aAfrican American civil rights workers
_vBiography.
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650 0 _aAfrican American politicians
_vBiography.
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610 2 0 _aNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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650 0 _aCivil rights workers
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
_951741
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xSocial conditions.
_971052
651 0 _aUnited States
_xRace relations.
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651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government
_y21st century.
_9124279
655 7 _aAutobiographies.
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