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

• Autore: Kamin Ben
• Pubblicazione: East Lansing, Mich., : Michigan State University Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (147 p.)
• Disciplina: 296.092; B
• Soggetto topico: Rabbis - United States; African Americans - Relations with Jews; African Americans - Civil rights - History - 20th century; Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations; Cincinnati (Ohio) Race relations
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Nothing like sunshine
• ISBN: 1-62895-153-2; 1-60917-212-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781568403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II