Baltimore 1960-Eight : Childhood, Family, Fury And then there was the Purple couch!
(2023)

Nonfiction

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Authors' Tranquility Press, 2023
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781961908819 MWT16923542, 1961908816 16923542
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Follow this eight year old child through the loss of innocence as he witnesses the war in Vietnam during the 60's the 'TET Offensive' in the beginning of 1968, as he tries to adapt to Catholic school. Hear his thoughts and fears as he grows up in a black family during a segregated country and racially charged Civil Rights Movement while trying to maintain his innocence. Journey with him through nightly televised violence of Vietnam and racial battles of Civil Rights marches. Hear his thoughts of the changing times in music, fashion and art and then the subsequent murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Terrible violence that follows during the riots in Baltimore City. Hear in his words how he felt, what he saw and his perception of the world as he grows up with the chaos around him

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