Description: Being Somebody & Black Besides : An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life, Hardcover by Nesbitt, George B.; Nesbitt, Prexy (EDT); Larson, Zeb (EDT); Drake, St. Clair (FRW); Perry, Imani (FRW), ISBN 022678312X, ISBN-13 9780226783123, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Like many twentieth-century Black families, the Nesbitts achieved an incredible transformation over the course of a single generation: from performing manual labor on the rural farms of the deep south to holding advanced degrees and owning property in the urban midwest, their family's story was lived or dreamed of by many who moved north during the Great Migration. In Being Somebody and Black Besides, George B. Nesbitt recounts the extraordinary struggles he, his parents, and his five siblings faced in their upwardly mobile journey from the Great Migration through the Freedom Struggle. Born in Champaign, Illinois, Nesbitt earned a law degree at the University of Illinois, enduring racist lectures and administrators who sought to penalize him when he advocated for racial equality. After graduating, he served in World War II, facing discrimination and harassment like many Black soldiers. And when the war was over, despite his education he held many jobs, some quite lowly, before he became deputy assistantto the secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Kennedy administration. A keen observer and narrator of race, Nesbitt recounts with righteous and justified anger his bitter struggles and incredible triumphs, shared by Black men and women in America. His beautifully written memoir is a rare example of a sustained first-person narrative about black life in this era. While many of his experiences will resonate with today's readers, others will provide a crucial glimpse into a chapter of Black life and its place in the unfinished struggle for racial justice in our country"--
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Book Title: Being Somebody and Black Besides : an Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 1.2 in
Topic: United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), United States / General, African American
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: History
Item Weight: 22.1 Oz
Author: George B. Nesbitt
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
