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      Proud Shoes

      by Pauli Murray
      Published
      Jul 1978
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      280
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      First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders of NOW, Proud Shoes chronicles the lives of Murray's maternal grandparents. From the birth of her grandmother, Cornelia Smith, daughter of a slave whose beauty incited the master's sons to near murder to the story of her grandfather Robert Fitzgerald, whose free black father married a white woman in 1840, Proud Shoes offers a revealing glimpse of our nation's history.

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      First Edition Jan 1978 HarperCollins ISBN13 9780060131098 ISBN10 0060131098
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      Jan 2022 Beacon Press ISBN10 B07QVGZGFV
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      Jul 2024 Beacon Press ISBN13 9780807072271 ISBN10 0807072273
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