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Nickel and a Prayer

Nickel and a Prayer

Hunter, Jane Edna
Thomas, Rhondda Robinson
Moody, Joycelyn

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ISBN10: 1933202645
ISBN13: 9781933202648
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: Feb 1 2011
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.59 Depth: 8.48
Language: English
Virtually unknown outside of her adopted hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, Jane Edna Harris Hunter was one of the most influential African American social activists of the early-to mid-twentieth century. In her autobiographyA Nickel and a Prayer, Hunter presents an enlightening two-part narrative that recollects her formative years in post-Civil War South and her activist years in Cleveland. First published in 1940, Hunter s autobiography recalls a childhood filled with the pleasures and pains of family life on the former plantation where her ancestors had toiled, adventures and achievements in schools for African American children, tests and trials during her brief marriage, and recognition and respect while completing nursing training and law school. When sharing the story of her life as an activist, Hunter describes the immense obstacles she overcame while developing an interracial coalition to support the Phillis Wheatley Association and nurturing its growth from a rented home that provided accommodation for twenty-two women to a nine-story building that featured one hundred and thirty-five rooms.

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