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What kind of bird can't fly : a memoir of resilience and resurrection / Dorsey Nunn with Lee Romney.
Van Pelt Library HV9475.C2 N866 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nunn, Dorsey, 1951- author.
- Romney, Leora, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ex-convicts--California--Biography.
- Ex-convicts.
- Prisoners--Civil rights--California.
- Prisoners.
- Prisoners--Civil rights.
- California.
- Genre:
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Biographies
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 349 pages, 8 unumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- What kind of bird cannot fly
- What kind of bird can not fly
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, California : Heyday, [2024]
- Summary:
- "Charts Dorsey Nunn's journey growing up poor and criminalized in East Palo Alto, surviving San Quentin, coming back to his community, and founding All Of Us Or None to empower formerly incarcerated people to fight for their rights as citizens"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Innocence unavailable, guilt not required
- Gladiator school
- Commitment to kill
- Mao's Little Red Book
- Lifelines
- The legal avenue
- a different way to fight
- Stepping up my game
- Fatherhood
- What kind of bird can't fly?
- Breathing room
- Class analysis
- Running shoes
- Free at last
- Preaching to the choir
- All of us or none
- Ban the box
- The concrete tomb
- "I speak for myself. I vote."
- From the prison gate to the White House gate
- The shape of the hole I left behind
- Homecoming
- "Slave, who is it that shall free you?".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Nunn, Dorsey, 1951- What kind of bird can't fly
- ISBN:
- 9781597146326
- 1597146323
- OCLC:
- 1394061423
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