Silver Rights

by Constance Curry | Biographies & Memoirs |
ISBN: 1565120957 Global Overview for this book
Registered by idioteqnician of Manchester, Greater Manchester United Kingdom on 2/25/2004
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Journal Entry 1 by idioteqnician from Manchester, Greater Manchester United Kingdom on Wednesday, February 25, 2004
I got this in Ottawa while visiting my sister, Gumshoe007.

Journal Entry 2 by idioteqnician at Bridgehead - Bank and Third in Ottawa, Ontario Canada on Wednesday, February 25, 2004
Released on Wednesday, February 25, 2004 at Bridgehead Coffeehouse on Third & Bank (Glebe) in Ottawa, Ontario Canada.

I am in Ottawa visiting my sister, Gumshoe007. Tonight we are going to a MeetUp with Jaybird1977, tyressia, and BookCrossing legend N8an. I'll release this book to one of them or leave it at the cafe.

Journal Entry 3 by ottawabill from Ottawa, Ontario Canada on Saturday, February 28, 2004
Due to this being Black Hisroty month, I have beeen buying up some books by black GLBT authors and so the notion of books by and about the Black experience have been on my mind, although I do not know if the author is from the GLBT community.

While resting, on the way home from a little shoping outting to get ready for an Academy Awards party I'm hosting tomorrow night, at Bridgehead I grabbed this book from the stand with some bookcrossing books on it. I'll take it to read on the plane to Vancouver in mid-March and then release it there.

Journal Entry 4 by ottawabill from Ottawa, Ontario Canada on Tuesday, March 9, 2004
This is a very powerful book about one family's heartbreaking and couragous commitment to their own rights and the rights of their race. This is also a very nice summarry of the civil rights movement in the Southern States.

The two stories are interwoven of course and shift back and forth as the Carter family send s its sevent children to be not only the first, but the only, black children to go to a white school in their town of Drew when the state legislates that schools must integrate.

The family beleieves what the president has been saying about a new future for them and they take him at his word and endure the difficulties of bucking a trend that has not only traditon, but violence, difficulty, poverty, and frustration on its side.

The story speaks volumes to the strength that comes form belief and faith, in a higher power and in the certainty of your own values and convictions. The Carter family choose not to be victims even if they are victimized and their dangerous choice is not only inspirational to read but served as a model to the world.


Released on Tuesday, March 09, 2004 at CAFE MONTMARTRE-Main & 28th in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada.

to be released tonight at the Vancouver MeetUp.

Journal Entry 6 by teacart from Vancouver, British Columbia Canada on Wednesday, March 10, 2004
I caught this book at the Vancouver BookCrossing MeetUp tonight. Ottawabill brought it with him, along with a number of other fabulous books. Actually, this is the first MeetUp I've been to that had more than a dozen books available to trade. It was fantastic!

Update - April 7, 2004: It's taken a while for me to get to this book. Reading Silver Rights was an emotional and educational experience. Constance Curry's writing retains the flavour of the oral history project that was the basis of this book. The immediacy this brings to her writing allows the reader to become fully and urgently engaged with the story.

The enormous hardships that the Carter family faced in integrating Sunflower County's schools are almost unimaginable. They lost their home and their livelihood in this struggle. Their children endured harassment every day until graduation. They could easily have lost their lives.

This book is a reminder that the mass of people can be unwilling or afraid to face down injustice until a few enormously brave people show them the way. Silver Rights celebrates the victories of a family of such courageous people.

I'm passing this book on to my mother (a non-BookCrosser). Once she's done with it, I'll release it.

Released 7 yrs ago (9/28/2016 UTC) at Neighborhood Book Exchange, Napier & Salsbury in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada

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Journal Entry 8 by wingAnonymousFinderwing at Vancouver, British Columbia Canada on Thursday, March 3, 2022
Picked this book up in a free library on a boulevard. Am just beginning to choose some non- fiction writings. I chose this book because it describes a struggle that 57 years later is still going strong but lots of progress has been made. I wondered about the title and imagined the reference was to “civil rights”, was pleased to read that description. Thank you for bringing alive that time and the descriptions of such personal accounts. I will return this book to a street kiosk for someone else to select.

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