Title: The angel of Beale Street
First published: 1986
Description: [A] carefully researched, vividly personal account of the life of Julia Ann Hooks -- a courageous woman, educated, talented, vulnerable, and Black in a time of tumultuous significance. This book takes Julia Hooks through slavery to freedom to carpetbagging and then to Beale Street. Her life, her loves, her marriages, her work were all conducted with dignity and honor.
Subjects: African Americans, Biography, African American women
People: Julia Ann Hooks (1852-1942)
LC classification: E185.97.H78 L49 1986