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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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A harrowing picture biography of civil-rights activist and Grammy Award-winning South African singer Miriam Makeba.
Miriam Makeba, a Grammy Award-winning South African singer, rose to fame in the hearts of her people at the pinnacle of apartheid-a brutal system of segregation similar to American Jim Crow laws. Mama Africa, as they called her, raised her voice to help combat these injustices at jazz clubs in Johannesburg; in exile, at a rally beside...
Author
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"This lyrical picture book biography of songwriter and activist Jean Ritchie traces the singer's life from the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky to New York City and beyond, as her protest songs inspired a nation."--Book jacket flap.
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