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1 online resource (257 p.) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1. Two Women... Two Vastly Different Lives-Betty and Phoebe -- 2. A Child's Point of View-Betty -- 3. War is Not the Answer-Phoebe -- 4. Soldiers Without Uniforms-Betty -- 5. Family Secrets-Phoebe -- 6. Hello, Cousin!-Betty and Phoebe -- 7. Dinner and a Movie-Betty and Phoebe -- 8. Love, War, and Peace-Betty -- 9. Aunt Lucia and Cousin Tim-Phoebe -- 10. The Forever Fight-Betty and Phoebe -- 11. Sojourner Truth in Kalamazoo-Betty -- 12. Communing with the Ancestors-Phoebe -- 13. Coming to the Table-Betty and Phoebe |
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14. I Am Free!-Betty -- 15. Complicity in the Oppression-Phoebe -- 16. Together on the Road-Betty and Phoebe -- 17. Q&A with-Betty and Phoebe -- 18. Repairing the Harms-Betty and Phoebe -- Readings and Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Also From Walnut Street Books -- About the Authors |
| Summary |
"What happens when a White woman, Phoebe, contacts a Black woman, Betty, saying she suspects they are connected through slavery? First surprise? Betty responds, "Hello, Cousin."#x9D; Betty had fought for an education and won. She broke through the concrete ceiling in the workplace and succeeded. A documentary of her life was about to debut. Without thinking, she invites Phoebe to a family dinner and the premiere of the documentary. Second surprise? She forgot to tell her family who was coming to dinner. Betty finds an activist partner in Phoebe. Cousins indeed, they commit to a path of reconciliation. In alternating chapters, each tells her dramatic story-from Betty's experience as one of the first Black children to attend her desegregated school, to Phoebe's eventual question to Betty: "How do I begin to repair the harms?"#x9D; Piercingly honest. Includes a working reparations project which the two women conceived together."-- Provided by Freading. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Baldwin, Betty Kilby.
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Kilby, Phoebe.
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Virginia, Northern -- Race relations -- History -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General. |
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Race relations |
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Northern Virginia |
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Biographies
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History
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| Added Author |
Kilby, Phoebe.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kilby Baldwin, Betty Cousins Chicago : Walnut Street Books,c2021 9781947597426 |
| ISBN |
1947597434 |
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9781947597433 (electronic bk.) |
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