Sign my name to freedom : a memoir of a pioneering life

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Label

Sign my name to freedom : a memoir of a pioneering life

Title remainder

a memoir of a pioneering life

Statement of responsibility

Betty Reid Soskin ; edited by J. Douglas Allen-Taylor

Title variation

Memoir of a pioneering life

Creator

• Soskin, Betty Reid, 1921-

Contributor

• Allen-Taylor, J. Douglas

Author

• Soskin, Betty Reid, 1921-

Editor

• Allen-Taylor, J. Douglas

Subject

• Autobiographies
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
• College teachers' spouses -- California | Berkeley -- Biography
• Creoles -- United States -- Biography
• East Bay (Calif.) -- Biography
• East Bay (Calif.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
• HISTORY / African American
• Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park (Agency : U.S) -- Officials and employees -- Biography
• African American women -- California | East Bay -- Biography
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
• San Francisco Bay Area -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
• Soskin, Betty Reid, 1921-
• Women political activists -- California | East Bay -- Biography
• Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park (Agency : U.S.) -- Officials and employees -- Biography
• African Americans -- California | East Bay -- Social conditions -- 20th century

Genre

• Biography
• Autobiographies

Language

eng

Summary

"In Betty Reid Soskin's 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the lynching of African-Americans was a national epidemic, blackface minstrel shows were the most popular American form of entertainment, white women had only just won the right to vote, and most African-Americans in the Deep South could not vote at all. From her great-grandmother, who had been enslaved until her mid-20s, Betty heard stories of slavery and the times of terror and struggle for black folk that followed. In her lifetime, Betty has watched the nation begin to confront its race and gender biases when forced to come together in the World War II era; seen our differences nearly break us apart again in the upheavals of the civil rights and Black Power eras; and, finally, lived long enough to witness both the election of an African-American president and the re-emergence of a militant, racist far right. Blending together selections from many of Betty's hundreds of blog entries with interviews, letters, and speeches, Sign My Name to Freedom invites you along on that journey, through the words and thoughts of a national treasure who has never stopped looking at herself, the nation, or the world with fresh eyes"--

Assigning source

Adapted from book jacket

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 979.4/6053092
• B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction