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uniqu r ci I mi ,
c n-Americ n, Cribb n, Euro-
p n, nd w il uth rn cultur s.
In the 1950s and 196 , the city
wa a peculiarly segregated city;
yet d pite its com plicated racial .
and ethnic i entity - the creoles,
who w re both whi te and Blac ,
people of Irish, German and Ital
ian descent, Latin Americans and
Bla (who represented s6meo 40
percent of the city's population)
and heat d desegregation battles,
ew Orlean ,unli e other South
ern cities such as Birmingham, did
not erupt into racial violence.
GHTEOUS LIVES: ar
rati ves of the New Orleans Civil
Rights Movement (336 page/23
"The torie rev al the con i tency of their
beliefs and de ire , even in he di couraging
years of the 1980 , when thepolitical career
of David uke, an e . - La man, emed to
ymbolize the con ervative poli ic and r.a-.
cial polarization of all merican voters. "
it r I t eir to-
ri . es nclude the fi t-gen r -.
tio I de (born tween
1897- 24) uch Virgin
Young Collin nd Leontine Goins
Lu e, two BI c omen nd both
d ughte 0 mini ters, who led
_________________________________ community-b ed organization,
voter-re istration driv nd Blac
PTA group in the 1950s nd
196 .
photograph I 35, cloth), written
by im Lacy oge, ociat
prof or of history at Dickin on
College in Carli le, Pennsylvani ,
and just published by the ew
Yor Unive ity Pr , tell the
story, in their own word , of th
ew Orleans' civil rights wor ers
who fought to deter the racial ter
rori m that scarred much of the
South during th turbulent 1950s
and 60s.
P GTE genera-
tions of activists, the boo traces
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"The ctivi ts' tories re con
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Ar n wh r d greg tion
p r ed violence, helped form
S v Our School , n organiz tion
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g ted.
W their lives are John
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o
in Righteou Live illustrat the
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Pas It On: African-American Children is a collection of poems by African-American
I poets. The poems explore dreaming, dancing in the sun, bath bubbles and the beauty of
people. There are jump-rope songs andpoems celebrating the fight for freedom andpoems
lamenting the bitter word of racism.
Featured poets include Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucille Clifton,
Eloise Greenfield, and. Nikki Giovanni.
Selected by Wade Hudson and lavishly illustrated with the evocative oil-wash
paintings of Floyd Cooper, Pass It On: African- merican Poetry For Children is
for children ages 5-9 of all ethnic background to read aloud and read alone. The
book will be available March 1.