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Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family
Proud Shoes The Story of an American Family Author:Pauli Murray Originally published in 1956, 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. — "Proud shoes is a book of such variety of incident and such depths of changes of tone as to astonish one who mistakes it simply for a family... more » chronicle. It is that, surely, but it is something more. It is a personal memoir, it is history, it is biography, and it is also a story that, at its best, is dramatic enough to satisfy the demands of fiction. It is written with anger, but without hatred; in affection, but without pathos, and tears; and in humor that never becomes extravagant." --Saunders Redding, New York Hearld Tribune« less