The courage to hope : how I stood up to the politics of fear / Shirley Sherrod ; with Catherine Whitney.

In the summer of 2010, Shirley Sherrod was catapulted into a media storm that blew apart her life and her job doing what she'd done for decades: helping poor, hardworking people live the American dream. She was a lifelong activist who served as Georgia's first black director of rural development. A...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sherrod, Shirley, 1948-
Other Authors:	Whitney, Catherine, 1950-
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Atria Books, 2012.
Edition:	First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Subjects:	Sherrod, Shirley, > 1948- United States. > Department of Agriculture > Officials and employees > Biography. Mass media > Objectivity > United States. African American farmers > Georgia > Economic conditions. Farmers > Georgia > Economic conditions. Rural poor > Georgia. Rural development > Georgia. Georgia > Rural conditions. Autobiographies.
Genre:	Biography. Autobiographies.
Physical Description:	240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Format:	Book

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