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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Song for My Father: Memoir of an All-American Family

Song for My Father: Memoir of an All-American Family

Oliver, Stephanie Stokes

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ISBN10: 0743474058
ISBN13: 9780743474054
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: Jul 26 2005
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.28 Depth: 8.56
Language: English
Song for My Father is a daughter's memoir of her father, Charles M. Stokes, a prominent African-American member of the National Republican Party. Known as Stokey, he was born just forty years after the abolition of slavery. But by the time he became a pioneer in the fields of law, legislation, and politics -- during the turbulent and transformative 1960s and 70s -- contemporary associations of the GOP with the party of Lincoln had faded. Stokes's choice to remain a Republican against the tide of black Democratic political loyalty took courage. He would live to become Seattle's first black state legislator and serve as Washington State's first African-American district court judge.

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