num_pages: 336
description: They were three Black girls. Dawn tall and studious; her sister Kim younger by three years and headstrong; and her best friend Debra already prom-queen pretty by third grade. They bonded as they roamed the concrete landscape of Bronzeville a historic neighborhood on Chicagos South Side the destination of hundreds of thousands of Black folks who fled the ravages of the Jim Crow South. These third-generation daughters of the Great Migration come of age in the 1970s in the warm glow of the recent civil rights movement. It has offered them a promise that they will have more opportunities rights and freedoms than any generation of Black Americans in history. But the girls have much more immediate concerns: hiding under the dining room table and eavesdropping on grown folks business; collecting secret treasures; and daydreaming about their futures. And then fate intervenes sending them careening in wildly different directions. Theres heartbreak loss displacement and even murder. Three Girls from Bronzeville is a memoir that chronicles Dawns attempt to find answers. Its a celebration of sisterhood a testimony to the unique struggles of Black women and a tour-de-force about the complex interplay of race class and opportunity and how those forces shape our lives and our capacity for resilience and redemption.
language: English
title: Three Girls from Bronzeville
publisher: Simon & Schuster