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Elisabeth Åsbrink, Gloria Ray Karlmark - Gloria Ray, Häftad

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Gloria Ray

The Little Rock Nine and the Fight for Civil Rights

Av Elisabeth Åsbrink, Gloria Ray Karlmark

Del i serien Scribe Publications

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Award-winning Elisabeth Åsbrink writes the biography of Gloria Ray Karlmark, one of the Little Rock Nine.Gloria Ray was 14 years old when she was stopped by armed white soldiers from entering Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. The year was 1957 and the governor of Arkansas refused to allow her and eight other Black teenagers to enter the all-white school. ‘That day my childhood ended’, Gloria says today.Gloria Ray and the others in the Little Rock Nine were the first to act on the 1954 Supreme Court decision that ruled the segregation of Black and white children in American schools unconstitutional. Arkansas’ resistance to the decision was so strong and violent that President Dwight Eisenhower was forced to deploy elite armed troops to escort the nine Black children to school every day.The incident became world news and a pawn in the Cold War, as well as a shocking exposure of racism in America. The Little Rock Nine are now icons in the history of the American civil rights movement.But the price was high. They endured harassment, death threats, and violence, and their parents and siblings suffered greatly, as did those who supported their fight for justice. In the end, the governor of Arkansas closed all public schools instead of allowing African-American children to mix with whites, and thousands of young people were affected by the decision.Gloria Ray is the story of the year that would change her life, but also of American racism and the slavery it grew out of, inextricably linked in the story of the United States. Elisabeth Åsbrink, with her eloquent narration and distinct voice, has a unique ability to crack open key moments of conflict, oppression, and inequality by weaving together strands of personal and national history.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2027-02-11
  • Mått: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
  • Vikt: 309 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Scribe Publications
  • Antal sidor: 288
  • Förlag: Scribe Publications
  • ISBN: 9781917189453
  • Översättare: Deborah Bragan-Turner
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Elisabeth Åsbrink is a journalist and multi-award-winning author. Her book 1947 won the prestigious Letterstedt Prize and has been translated into 19 languages. Her latest book is Made in Sweden.Deborah Bragan-Turner is a literary translator working from Swedish to English. She has a degree in Scandinavian Languages from University College London, and has been a research assistant in the British Library, an academic librarian in a UK university, and an independent bookseller in France. Deborah has translated a range of genres for a number of UK and US publishers and many sample extracts for literary agents in Sweden. She was the editor of Swedish Book Review, the journal of SELTA, from 2015 to 2020.Gloria Ray Karlmark has a degree in chemistry and mathematics and has worked as a systems analyst and patent engineer, with positions at IBM and Philips in the Netherlands. She moved to Sweden in 1969, and has mainly lived there since then. Her story has never before been told in book form.

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‘Gloria Ray is a gripping story of the fourteen-year-old young lady who was one of the nine brave souls in 1957 who desegregated Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas, amid gun-toting federal agents and raw hatred and intimidation from screaming adults. The book takes us behind the media coverage to understand what it took for Gloria to be there and how the experience of striving for her dreams within a hostile environment affected her life. Learning about what shaped her, and how she dealt with the mental and emotional challenges of taking on the full weight of an entire social structure that resented her presence, humanises the burden and struggle of being “the first.”’

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