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    Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
    Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
    Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
    Audiobook17 hours

    Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights

    Written by Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due

    Narrated by Patricia R. Floyd and Lizan Mitchell

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    About this audiobook

    Tananarive Due, best-selling author and American Book Award winner, and her mother, Patricia Stephens Due, guide listeners through the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Told in alternating chapters, their story is a triumphant memoir of their experiences with everyday people fighting for equality as members of grassroots organizations in the South. Filled with drama, heartache and rousing successes, Freedom in the Family will inspire and enlighten with its riveting account of one of America's most progressive times.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 8, 2011
    ISBN9781456122430
    Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
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    Tananarive Due

    Tananarive Due is an American Book Award and NAACP Image Award­–winning author, who was an executive producer on Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror for Shudder and teaches Afrofuturism and Black Horror at UCLA. She and her husband, science fiction author Steven Barnes, cowrote the graphic novel The Keeper and an episode for Season 2 of The Twilight Zone for Paramount Plus and Monkeypaw Productions. Due is the author of several novels and two short story collections, Ghost Summer: Stories and The Wishing Pool and Other Stories. She is also coauthor of a civil rights memoir, Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights (with her late mother, Patricia Stephens Due). Learn more at TananariveDue.com. 

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      Enjoyed it. Currently living in Florida and being from up North was kind of oblivious to the struggles in FL. Because you mostly hear about MS and AL. Glad I picked up the book.