Bibliograph

Diesel heart, an autobiography, Melvin Whitfield Carter Jr

Type

Label

Diesel heart, an autobiography, Melvin Whitfield Carter Jr

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

portraitsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Diesel heart

Oclc number

1080555815

Responsibility statement

Melvin Whitfield Carter Jr

Sub title

an autobiography

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

Table Of 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

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