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Title Statement | Three girls from Bronzeville: a uniquely American memoir of race, fate, and sisterhood / Dawn Turner. |
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Author | Turner, Dawn |
Additional Contributors | Edwards, Janina |
Publication | Toronto, Ontario: CELA,2021. |
Edition | Unabridged. |
Extent of Item | 1 DAISY audio disc (11 hrs., 46 min.) |
ISBN | 9781039523661 1039523668 |
Other Number | (OCoLC)1297841824 |
Performance Credits | Narrated by Janina Edwards. |
System Details | System requirements: IBM PC or compatible; double speed or faster CD-ROM drive; sound card and sound output device; DAISY playback software or DAISY talking book player. Also plays in CD-MP3 player or computer with MP3-capable software. Digital to DAISY. DAISY 2.02 standard; MP3 compression at 32 kbps |
Summary | They were three Black girls. Dawn, tall and studious; her sister, Kim, younger by three years and headstrong as they come; and her best friend, Debra, already prom-queen pretty by third grade. They bonded--fervently and intensely in that unique way of little girls--as they roamed the concrete landscape of Bronzeville, a historic neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, the destination of hundreds of thousands of Black folks who fled the ravages of the Jim Crow South. These third-generation daughters of the Great Migration come of age in the 1970s, in the warm glow of the recent civil rights movement. It has offered them a promise, albeit nascent and fragile, that they will have more opportunities, rights, and freedoms than any generation of Black Americans in history. Their working-class, striving parents are eager for them to realize this hard-fought potential. But the girls have much more immediate concerns: hiding under the dining room table and eavesdropping on grown folks' business; collecting secret treasures; and daydreaming about their futures--Dawn and Debra, doctors, Kim a teacher. For a brief, wondrous moment the girls are all giggles and dreams and promises of "friends forever." And then fate intervenes, first slowly and then dramatically, sending them careening in wildly different directions. There's heartbreak, loss, displacement, and even murder. Dawn struggles to make sense of the shocking turns that consume her sister and her best friend, all the while asking herself a simple but profound question: Why? |
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By Topic | African Americans--Biography--Illinois--Chicago |
African American women--Biography--Illinois--Chicago | |
Women--Biography--Illinois--Chicago | |
Journalists--Biography--Illinois--Chicago | |
Race relations | |
African American women | |
African Americans | |
Families | |
Journalists | |
Race relations | |
Women | |
By Name | Turner, Dawn |
Turner, Dawn--Family | |
Turner, Kim,1968-1994--Childhood and youth | |
Trice, Debra | |
By Location | Bronzeville (Chicago, Ill.)--Biography |
Chicago (Ill.)--Biography | |
Illinois--Chicago | |
Illinois--Chicago--Bronzeville | |
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