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Sister
Sylvia Bell White
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Description for Sister
Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 544.
Raised in a part of the segregated South that provided no school for African American children, Sylvia Bell White went North as a teenager, dreaming of a nursing career and a freedom defined in part by wartime rhetoric about American ideals. In Milwaukee she and her brothers persevered through racial rebuffs and discrimination to find work. Barred from the city's factories, Sylvia took adult education courses, scrubbed floors, worked as a nurse's aide.
When a Milwaukee police officer killed her younger brother Daniel Bell in 1958, the Bell family suspected a racial murder but could do nothing to prove ... Read more
Raised in a part of the segregated South that provided no school for African American children, Sylvia Bell White went North as a teenager, dreaming of a nursing career and a freedom defined in part by wartime rhetoric about American ideals. In Milwaukee she and her brothers persevered through racial rebuffs and discrimination to find work. Barred from the city's factories, Sylvia took adult education courses, scrubbed floors, worked as a nurse's aide.
When a Milwaukee police officer killed her younger brother Daniel Bell in 1958, the Bell family suspected a racial murder but could do nothing to prove ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press United States
Number of pages
283
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299294342
SKU
V9780299294342
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About Sylvia Bell White
Sylvia Bell White was born in Louisiana in 1930 and moved to Milwaukee at seventeen. After a five-year sojourn in California, she returned to Wisconsin and now lives near Milwaukee. Jody LePage has a PhD in history and lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
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