They raised me up : a black single mother and the women who inspired her

They raised me up : a black single mother and the women who inspired her / Carolyn Marie Wilkins.

At the height of the cocaine-fueled 1980s, the author left a disastrous marriage in Washington State and, hoping to make it in the music business, moved with her four-year-old daughter to a gritty working-class town on the edge of Boston. This is the story of her battle to succeed in the world of ja...

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Main Author: Wilkins, Carolyn (Carolyn Marie)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Wilkins, Carolyn > (Carolyn Marie)
African American single mothers > Biography.
African American women musicians > Biography.
African American women > Biography.
African American families.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
African American families
African American single mothers
African American women
African American women musicians
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Carolyn's inspiring women
  • A note to the reader
  • Carolyn and Sarah, Somerville, Massachusetts, August 1986
  • Lilly, Midway, Alabama, November 1896
  • Carolyn and Sarah, Somerville, August 1986
  • Lilly and Alberta, Birmingham, Alabama, 1899
  • Carolyn and Sarah, Somerville, September 1986
  • Lilly and Alberta, Birmingham, 1899
  • Carolyn and Sarah, Somerville, September 1986
  • Lilly and Alberta, Weir, Kansas, 1905
  • Carolyn and Sarah, Somerville, September 1986
  • Alberta, Anniston, Alabama, 1913
  • Carolyn and Sarah, Somerville, September 1986
  • Lilly and Alberta, Detroit, 1917
  • Carolyn and Sarah, Brooklyn, Thanksgiving
  • Alberta, Harlem, 1940
  • Elizabeth and Carolyn, Brooklyn, Thanksgiving 1986
  • Alberta, Harlem, 1943
  • Carolyn and Sarah, Somerville, December 1986
  • Alberta, Harlem, 1944
  • Carolyn and Sarah, Somerville, December 1986
  • Aunt Marjory, Brooklyn, 1948
  • Carolyn and Sarah, Somerville, January 1987
  • Aunt Marjory, Brooklyn, 1948
  • Carolyn and Sarah, Somerville, March 1987
  • Alberta, Harlem, 1947
  • Carolyn, Somerville, August 1987
  • Carolyn and Elizabeth, Birmingham, January 2012.

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