Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life (Nesbitt George B.)(Pevná vazba)

An immersive multi-generational memoir that recounts the hopes, injustices, and triumphs of a Black family fighting for access to the American dream in the twentieth century. The late Chicagoan George Nesbitt could perhaps best be described as an ordinary man with an extraordinary gift for storytelling. In his newly uncovered memoir--written fifty years ago, yet never published--he chronicles in vivid and captivating detail the story of how his upwardly-mobile Midwest Black family lived through the tumultuous twentieth century. Spanning three generations, Nesbitt's tale starts in 1906 with the Great Migration and ends with the Freedom Struggle in the 1960s. He describes his parents' journey out of the South, his struggle against racist military authorities in World War II, the promise and peril of Cold War America, the educational and professional accomplishments he
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