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Nothing like sunshine : a story in the aftermath of the MLK assassination / Ben Kamin.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Kamin, Ben.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Rabbis--United States--Biography.
Rabbis.
African Americans--Relations with Jews.
African Americans.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
Civil rights movements.
United States--Race relations.
United States.
Cincinnati (Ohio)--Race relations.
Cincinnati (Ohio).
Woodward High School (Cincinnati, Ohio).
Kamin, Ben.
Fleetwood, Clifton.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (147 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, c2010.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Rabbi Ben Kamin has written a definitive personal expression about race, coming of age in the 1960's, a forbidden friendship, and his personal love for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This is a story that spans a four-decade search for a lost high school chum, a deep misunderstanding, and a coming to terms with an America painfully evolving from the blood of MLK to the promise of Barack Obama. The book is a remembrance of Kamin's life at Cincinnati's notorious Woodward High School, a microcosm of the 1960's and of America itself, as well as detailing Kamin's search-for Clifton, for
Contents:
Room B4
The ville, New Orleans, and prayer feathers
Room 306
Memphis voices
"What kind of country was that?"
"I was protecting you, man"
"Thank god we ain't what we was".
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
1-62895-153-2
1-60917-212-4
OCLC:
760712446

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