White is a state of mind
a memoir
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Word Count
84,250 words, Guess
Page Count
337 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL378689M
- ISBN-100399144641
- OCLC Control Number98040768
- OCLC Control Number39922877
- OCLC Control Numberwhiteisstateofmi00beal
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number98040768
- LibraryThing328695
- Goodreads399848
Classifications
- DDC379.2/63/0976773
- LCCLC214.23.L56 B47 1999
Description
In 1957, while most teenage girls were listening to Buddy Holly's "Peggy Sue," watching Elvis gyrate, and having slumber parties, fifteen-year-old Melba Pattillo was escaping the hanging rope of a lynch mob, dodging lighted sticks of dynamite, and washing away the burning acid sprayed into her eyes by segregationists determined to prevent her from integrating Little Rock's Central High School - caught up in the center of a civil rights firestorm that stunned this nation and altered the course of history. Her critically acclaimed and award-winning memoir Warriors Don't Cry chronicled her junior year in high school, the year President Eisenhower took unprecedented, historic action by sending federal troops to escort Melba and her eight black classmates into a previously all-white school. Now, in answer to the often repeated question "What happened next?" Melba has written White Is a State of Mind. Compelled to flee the violent rage percolating in her hometown, young Melba was brought by the NAACP to a safe haven in Santa Rosa, California. This is the story of how she survived - healed from the wounds inflicted on her by an angry country. It is the inspirational story of how she overcame that anger with the love and support of the white family who took her in and taught her she didn't have to yearn for the freedom she assumed she could never really have because of the color of her skin. They taught her that white is a state of mind - that she could alter her state of mind to claim fully her own freedom and equality.
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- Biography.
Other Editions
- White is a state of mind: a memoir
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