Proud shoes
Subtitle: the story of an American family
By: Pauli Murray.
Series: Black women writers series
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Fitzgerald family; Murray, Pauli, 1910- -- Family; African American families -- Biography; African Americans -- Social life and customs
Description: History of a family blended from slaves, free blacks, white slaveowners, Cherokee Indians, and others. Pauli Murray tells the story of her grandparents, delving into the realities of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the pre-Civil War/Reconstruction era in the South."A significant contribution to our understanding of the black experience in America. . . . Fascinating."-- Publishers Weekly.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 280).
Originally published: New York : Harper, [1956].