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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457660203321

Autore

Kamin Ben

Titolo

Nothing like sunshine [[electronic resource] ] : a story in the aftermath of the MLK assassination / / Ben Kamin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, Mich., : Michigan State University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-62895-153-2

1-60917-212-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (147 p.)

Disciplina

296.092

B

Soggetti

Rabbis - United States

African Americans - Relations with Jews

African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century

Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

United States Race relations

Cincinnati (Ohio) Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Room B4 -- The ville, New Orleans, and prayer feathers -- Room 306 -- Memphis voices -- "What kind of country was that?" -- "I was protecting you, man" -- "Thank god we ain't what we was".

Sommario/riassunto

Rabbi Ben Kamin has written a definitive personal expression about race, coming of age in the 1960's, a forbidden friendship, and his personal love for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This is a story that spans a four-decade search for a lost high school chum, a deep misunderstanding, and a coming to terms with an America painfully evolving from the blood of MLK to the promise of Barack Obama.     The book is a remembrance of Kamin's life at Cincinnati's notorious Woodward High School, a microcosm of the 1960's and of America itself, as well as detailing Kamin's search-for Clifton, for