Our America

Name: Our America
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ISBN: 9780671004644

ISBN-10: 0671004646

ISBN-13: 9780671004644

Edition: 1998

Authors: Lealan Jones, Lloyd Newman, David Isay

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Through two award-winning National Public Radio documentaries, and now this powerful book, LeAlan Jones and Lloyd Newman have made it their mission to be loud voices from one of this country's darkest places, Chicago's Ida B. Wells housing project. Set against the stunning photographs of a talented young photographer from the projects, Our America evokes the unforgiving world of these two amazing young men, and their struggle to survive unrelenting tragedy. With a gift for clear-eyed journalism, they tell their own stories and others, including that of the death of Eric Morse, a five-year-old who was dropped to his death from the fourteenth floor of an Ida B. Wells apartment building by two…

Book details

List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 5/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English



Preface



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Author's Note


A Ghetto Glossary



Life--1993



The Beginning



The 'Hood



School



Kicking It



LeAlan



Lloyd



Ghetto Getaway



Peace Out: 1993



Death--1995



Messengers



The Scene of the Crime



From the Outside, Looking In



A Breakthrough



Juvenile Justice



Falling Through the Cracks



Both Sides of the Law



Shorties in the 'Hood



Closer Than We Imagined



Remorse



Life--1996



The Maze



The 'Hood



School



LeAlan



Lloyd



Parting Words



Our America