Proud Shoes: The Story of an American Family
by:
Pauli Murray (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780060906177 (0060906170)
Publish date: August 28th 1978
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 282
Edition language: English
This book is a hidden gem: the biography of a mixed-race family around the time of the Civil War. It was published well before its time – in 1956 there wasn’t much interest in African-American family sagas – but it is well-written and fascinating in part because this isn’t a commonly-told story. Mur...