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Silver Rights is a true story of clear-eyed determination, down-home grit, and sweet triumph. It's the story of the Carter family of Sunflower County, Mississippi, African-American sharecroppers on a cotton plantation who, in 1965, sent seven of their thirteen children to desegregate an all-white school system. Mae Bertha and Matthew Carter had a dream for their children: to get them out of the cotton fields. And they knew of only one way to make it come true: to get them the best available education. So, when white school and county officials cynically met the letter (but not the spirit) of…
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2 editions- Other · English · 1996Harcourt Brace · 258 pages · 9780156004794
- Other · English · 1995Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill · 258 pages · 9781565120952
BiographySchool integrationRace relationsAfrican AmericansAfrican americans, educationAfrican americans, mississippiAfrican americans, segregationMississippi, biography