Being somebody & Black besides : an untold memoir of midcentury Black life / George B. Nesbitt ; edited by Prexy Nesbit and Zeb Larson ; with an original foreword by St. Clair Drake and a contemporary foreword by Imani Perry.

"Like many twentieth-century Black families, the Nesbitts achieved an incredible transformation over the course of a single generation: from performing manual labor on the rural farms of the deep south to holding advanced degrees and owning property in the urban midwest, their family's story was liv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nesbitt, George B., 1912-2002 (Author)
Other Authors: Nesbitt, Prexy (Editor)
Larson, Robert Zebulun (Editor)
Drake, St. Clair (writer of foreword.)
Perry, Imani, 1972- (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Nesbitt, George B., > 1912-2002.
African Americans > Biography.
African Americans > Illinois > Biography.
African American lawyers > Biography.
Civil rights workers > United States > Biography.
African Americans > History > 20th century.
Race discrimination > United States > History > 20th century.
African American lawyers.
African Americans.
Civil rights workers.
Race discrimination.
Illinois.
United States.
HISTORY / United States / General.
1900-1999
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
History.
Genre:
Biography.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
History.
Physical Description:xliv, 298 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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