Here I am - take my hand. / Marie Brookter, with Jean Curtis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brookter, Marie, 1931-2009.

Curtis, Jean, 1939- author.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brookter, Marie, 1931-2009.

Brookter, Marie.

African Americans--Politics and government--Biography.

African Americans.

African Americans--Politics and government.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 248 pages. ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.

Contents:

Growing up in Louisiana

- The Death of Lester Mitchell

1953-1960: Breaking Out and Getting In

1961-1968: Seven Years of Professional Growth

1969-1972: A New Field of Communication

Joining the McGovern Camp

First Black Advance Woman: Beginnings

Racial Tensions in a Liberal Camp

Wet Days in Richmond

"Smoke-Filled Rooms" Under the Mandate for Reform

Miami Convention: Black Woman with a Job

Miami Convention: Behind the Scenes as We Go Over the Top

Conflicting Roles: Working for McGovern-Working for Women

Convention Wrap-up: Forebodings for Blacks

Louisiana: Family and Politics

Return to Opelousas: Political Bystander

My First Event Advancing the Presidential Campaign: A Black Event for Shriver

Southwest Area Assignment: A New Advance System

A Day in the Life of an Advance Person

A Week in Washington: Time to Reflect and Time to Complain

My Last Assignment: The Chicago Rally

Postscript.

Notes:

"Designed by Dorothy Schmiderer."

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Banks Collection copy has embossed stamp "JB The Library of Joanna Banks".

ISBN:

0060105313 :

OCLC:

834836