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Diesel heart : an autobiography / Melvin Whitfield Carter Jr.
Van Pelt Library HV8148.S282 C37 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carter, Melvin Whitfield, Jr., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carter, Melvin Whitfield, Jr.
- Carter, Melvin Whitfield.
- African American police--Minnesota--Saint Paul--Biography.
- African American police.
- African Americans--Minnesota--Saint Paul--Biography.
- African Americans.
- Armed Forces--Officers--Biography.
- Armed Forces.
- Armed Forces--Officers.
- Saint Paul (Minn.)--Race relations--History.
- Saint Paul (Minn.).
- Saint Paul (Minn.)--Social conditions.
- Race relations.
- Social conditions.
- Minnesota--Saint Paul.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 267 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Melvin Whitfield Carter Jr., the father of St. Paul's mayor, is a true son of Rondo, the city's storied African American neighborhood. This autobiography -- full of humor and surprising vulnerability -- demonstrates the power of hard work and principled resistance"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Who I came from
- The family up north
- Deep Rondo
- Learnin' lessons
- Growin' pains
- Free at last
- Long hot summer
- Turnin' points
- Maiden voyage
- The passage
- Boiler room
- Bouk in pieces
- Internal combustion
- Thump call
- Trial and error
- In the valley of the shadow
- Head to the sky
- The police academy
- Probationary blues
- Two new worlds
- Policing while Black
- Routine workplace hostility
- Rice Street parade
- SWAT
- One good man and then the battle
- Who woulda thought it?
- Promoted
- Save our sons.
- ISBN:
- 9781681341255
- 1681341255
- OCLC:
- 1080555815
- Publisher Number:
- 99982972549
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