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The courage to hope : how I stood up to the politics of fear / Shirley Sherrod ; with Catherine Whitney.
Van Pelt Library E901.1.S54 A3 2012
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sherrod, Shirley, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sherrod, Shirley, 1948-.
- Sherrod, Shirley.
- United States. Department of Agriculture--Officials and employees--Biography.
- United States.
- United States. Department of Agriculture.
- Mass media--Objectivity--United States.
- Mass media.
- Mass media--Objectivity.
- Rural conditions.
- Rural development.
- Rural poor.
- Farmers.
- Economic conditions.
- African American farmers.
- African American farmers--Georgia--Economic conditions.
- Farmers--Georgia--Economic conditions.
- Rural poor--Georgia.
- Rural development--Georgia.
- Georgia--Rural conditions.
- Georgia.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atria Books, 2012.
- Summary:
- Sherrod was a lifelong activist who served as Georgia's first black director of rural development. In the summer of 2010, a right-wing blogger disseminated an ill-conceived video clip of a speech Sherrod had given to the Georgia NAACP, intending to make her an example of "reverse racism." The media frenzy that ensued caused the Obama administration to demand her resignation. After hearing from Sherrod herself and learning the entire truth of what she said in that speech, the administration tried to backtrack. Public officials and media professionals admitted to being duped and apologized for their rush to judgment. Ultimately, Sherrod found herself the subject of a teachable moment. The Courage to Hope addresses this regrettable moment in American politics, but it also tells Sherrod's own story of growing up on a farm in southwest Georgia during the final violent years of Jim Crow. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 "The White House Wants You Out" 1
- Chapter 2 Truth to Power 9
- Chapter 3 Freedom's Whisper 25
- Chapter 4 My Father's Dream 47
- Chapter 5 Sheriff Gator's Law 57
- Chapter 6 Love in a Land of Hate 69
- Chapter 7 At Work in the Fields 83
- Chapter 8 Saving Farmers 97
- Chapter 9 At Home in the World 109
- Chapter 10 A Place at the Table 119
- Chapter 11 Joining Obama's Team 129
- Chapter 12 Walking into the Light 143
- Chapter 13 Seeking Justice 155
- Chapter 14 Planting Hope 169.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1451650949
- 9781451651010
- 1451651015
- 9781451650945
- 9781451651027
- 1451651023
- OCLC:
- 768171261
- Publisher Number:
- 99952795475
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