{"product_id":"proud-shoes-isbn-9780807072097","title":"Proud Shoes","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1956, \u003ci\u003eProud Shoes\u003c\/i\u003e is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders of NOW, \u003ci\u003eProud Shoes\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles the lives of Murray's maternal grandparents. From the birth of her grandmother, Cornelia Smith, daughter of a slave whose beauty incited the master's sons to near murder to the story of her grandfather Robert Fitzgerald, whose free black father married a white woman in 1840, \u003ci\u003eProud Shoes\u003c\/i\u003e offers a revealing glimpse of our nation's history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A classic on the intertwining fictions of race and sex, the depth of their cruelty, and the strength that has defied them. Present-day America cannot be understood without true stories like the ones Murray tells.\"  —Gloria Steinem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pauli Murray is one of the founding leaders of the modern American women's movement, and I am glad to see her wonderful book in print again.\" —Betty Friedan \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Moving and remarkable.… \u003ci\u003eProud Shoes\u003c\/i\u003e traps the beast of American slavery, in particular, the strange and tragic domestic struggle between master and slave, and the ironic 'gift of white blood' that still nourishes and suffocates many Americans.\" —Jack Hicks, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A significant contribution to our understanding of the black experience in America.… Fascinating.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003cb\u003eReverend Dr. Pauli Murray\u003c\/b\u003e (1910–1985) was a lawyer and civil-rights activist, America's first black woman Episcopalian priest, and a founder of NOW.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatricia Bell-Scott\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of family and child development and women's studies at the University of Georgia. She was founding editor of \u003ci\u003eSAGE: A Scholarly Journal on Women\u003c\/i\u003e and has been a contributing editor to Ms. Magazine. She has published several books, including \u003ci\u003eLife Notes: Personal Writings by Contemporary Black Women, Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFlat-footed Truths: Telling Black Women's Lives\u003c\/i\u003e (with Dr. Juanita Johnson-Bailey).","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44865797980389,"sku":"NP9780807072097","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807072097.jpg?v=1767735184","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/proud-shoes-isbn-9780807072097","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}