Freedom lessons : a novel

Summary: "Louisiana. 1969. Colleen, a white northern teacher, enters into the unfamiliar culture of a small southern town and its unwritten rules as the town surrenders to mandated school integration. Frank, a black high school football player, protects his family with a secret. And Evelyn, an experienced teacher and prominent member of the local black community, must decide whether she is willing to place trust in her new white colleague. Told alternatively by Colleen, Frank, and Evelyn, Freedom lessons is the story of how the lives of these three very different people intersect in a time when our nation faced, as it does today, a crisis of race, unity, and identity"--Page 4 of cover.

Item details

ISBN: 9781631526107
ISBN: 1631526103
Physical Description: print
ix, 245 pages ; 22 cm
Publisher: Berkeley, California : She Writes Press, a BookSparks imprint, a division of SparkPointStudio, LLC, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Contents / Notes

General Note:

Includes book club discussion questions (pages 244-245).

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Subject:

Women teachers Louisiana Fiction
African American women teachers Louisiana Fiction
African American football players Louisiana Fiction
School integration Louisiana Fiction
Nineteen sixties Fiction
Louisiana Race relations 20th century

Genre:

Historical fiction.

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