Sister: An African American Life in Search of Justice

by Sylvia Bell White and Jody LePage

Book Overview

Raised with twelve brothers in a part of the segregated South that provided no school for African American children through the 1940s, 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 by both her gender and color from employment in the city's factories,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029929434X
• ISBN13: 9780299294342
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"