Ilyasah Shabazz
Autor/a de X: A Novel
Sobre l'autor
Crèdit de la imatge: By Slowking4 - Own work, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35041253
Obres de Ilyasah Shabazz
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- SHABAZZ, Ilyasah
- Data de naixement
- 1962-07-22
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Queens, New York, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Westchester County, New York, USA
- Educació
- The Masters School
State University of New York, New Paltz
Fordham University - Professions
- motivational speaker
- Relacions
- Malcolm X (father)
Shabazz, Betty (mother)
Shabazz, Qubilah (sister)
Shabazz, Malikah (sister)
Shabazz, Malaak (sister)
Shabazz, Attallah (sister) (mostra-les totes 7)
Shabazz, Gamilah Lumumba (sister)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 7
- Membres
- 1,154
- Popularitat
- #22,276
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 66
- ISBN
- 46
- Preferit
- 1
- Pedres de toc
- 10
Loved but unwanted by her mother, 11-year-old Betty finds solace in friends and church. In 1945 Detroit, Betty’s African-American church community is a hub for activism in the face of Jim Crow racism, police brutality, and economic inequality. With renowned guests such as Thurgood Marshall and Paul Robeson coming to speak and perform, Betty and her friends are swept up in the fervor and demand for social justice that would become a movement. They volunteer for the Housewives’ League, a group that encourages the community to give its dollars to black-owned and -employing businesses. But the movement is also personal for Betty, who struggles to find her place in a world that treats brown-skinned black girls as lesser—less beautiful, less worthy, less deserving. Authored by her daughter Ilyasah Shabazz in collaboration with Watson, this moving fictional account of the early life of the late civil rights leader and widow of Malcolm X draws on the recollections of family and friends. The result is a heart-rending imagining of Shabazz’s personal challenges as well as a rare, intimate look at the complex roots of the American civil rights movement.
A personal, political, and powerful imagining of the early life of the late activist . (Historical fiction. 10-14)
-Kirkus Review… (més)