Daddy Was a Number Runner

Told from the perspective of a 12-year-old girl, this popular novel documents the disintergration of a black family in Harlem in the 1930s. A compelling, readable, occasionally funny work, it vividly illuminates the life of the ghetto, not just the despair and the violence, but the pride and the vitality as well.

Politics & Social Sciences

Meriwether, Louise

Social Sciences

Prentice Hall Direct

Recounts the life of the courageous Black woman who defied the Montgomery bus laws to draw attention to racism in America

Don't Ride the Bus on Monday: The Rosa Parks Story

Children's Books

PRENTICE/HALL

A brief biography of the slave who escaped to freedom with his family and other runaway slaves on a captured Confederate gunboat.

The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls

Acclaimed author of Daddy Was a Numbers Runner and the historical novel Fragments of the Ark, Louise Meriwether now gives us this resonant and revealing contemporary story about the struggle to love in the shadow of our fears. . . A successful writer for BlackSpeak magazine, Glenda Jackson is gifted, dynamic, and respected in her field. She's determined to take control of her emotional life. While reviewing a new play at Harlem's innovative Aldridge Ensemble, she meets the enigmatic director, Mark Abbitt, the driving force behind a renaissance in black theater. The charismatic director proves to be as complex as one of his dramas. Haunted by memories of Vietnam, blind to the manipulations of his ex-wife, Mark is determined to be a good father to his four-year-old son. If Glenda's not to be eclipsed by Mark's powerful presence, she must confront her own deep fear of intimacy to find out if love is enough to heal a damaged soul. Yet against all the odds, these two remarkable people step into each other's shadow . . .and begin to dance.

Shadow Dancing

Romance

One World/Ballantine

With a Foreword by James Baldwin\n'Beautiful, timeless and relevant' Jacqueline Woodson\n'A most important novel' Paule Marshall\n'A considerable achievement' James Baldwin\nDepression-era Harlem is home for twelve-year-old Francie Coffin and her family, and it's both a place of refuge and of danger. Her beloved father becomes a number runner when he is unable to find legal work, and while one of Francie's brothers dreams of becoming a chemist, the other is in a gang. Francie, too, is a dreamer, but women in her neighbourhood have limited prospects, either selling their bodies on the streets, running poker games or having a baby every year. There are risks in everything, from going to the movies to walking down the block.

Daddy Was A Number Runner (Virago Modern Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Virago

Daddy Was Numb Runner

Jove

A group of resolute runaway slaves attempt to steal the gunboat Swanee and deliver it to the Union army and are united in their fight by love and history. 30,000 first printing.

Fragments of the Ark

United States

Pocket_Books

A stirring recreation of the Civil War years recounts the adventures of Peter Mango, an escaped South Carolina slave, who steals a gunboat and pilots a group of unforgettable runaways to freedom. Reprint.

The Feminist Press at CUNY

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Daddy Was a Number Runner

Don't Ride the Bus on Monday: The Rosa Parks Story

The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls

Shadow Dancing

Daddy Was A Number Runner (Virago Modern Classics)

Daddy Was Numb Runner

Daddy Was Numb Runner

Fragments of the Ark

Fragments of the Ark

Daddy Was a Number Runner