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Author Freeman, Douglas Gary, author

Title Exile blues / Douglas Gary Joseph Freeman
Published Montréal : Baraka Books, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (332 pages)
Contents Intro; 1. Montreal, The Plateau, December 1968; 2. Montreal, January 1969; 3. Montreal, March 1969 -- A Friday; 4. Montreal, May Day, 1969; 5. Chicago, Summer 1968; 6. Montreal, Summer Solstice, 1969 -- Pre-dawn; 7. Montreal, Summer Solstice, 1969 -- Sunrise; 8. Washington, D.C., Spring 1953; 9. Washington, D.C., May 1953; 10. Washington, D.C., June 1953; 11. Washington, D.C., July 1953; 12. Washington, D.C., late July 1953; 13. Washington, D.C., August 1953; 14. Washington, D.C., September 1953; 15. Washington, D.C., Beginning of Summer 1955; 16. Southeast Washington, D.C., 1957
17. Washington, D.C., late Summer 195718. Washington, D.C, Spring 1958; 19. Washington, D.C., Fall 1958; 20. Washington, D.C., Spring 1959; 21. Washington, D.C., Summer of "fiddy-nine"; 22. Washington, D.C., Fall 1959; 23. Saturday, June 18th 1960; 24. Saturday, June 25, 1960; 25. D.C. General Hosptial, Later that evening; 26. D.C. General Hospital; 27. Montreal, Summer Solstice, 1969 -- Supper; 28. Washington, D.C., August 1960; 29. Washington, D.C., late August 1960; 30. Washington, D.C., September 1960; 31. Washington, D.C., Wednesday, June 12, 1963; 32. Washington, D.C., June 19, 1963
33. Washington, D.C., Saturday, July 6, 196334. Washington, D.C., late July, 1963; 35. Howard University, September, 1963; 36. One Week Later; 37. Northeast Washington, October 1963; 38. Washington, D.C., November 22, 1963; 39. Chicago, 1964; 40. Chicago, Wednesday, June 24, 1964; 41. Chicago, Fall 1966; 42. Chicago, August, 1966; 43. Chicago, September, 1966, A Friday; 44. The Next Morning, A Saturday; 45. The Monday Morning After; 46. Washington, D.C., 1967; 47. Chicago, January, 1968; 48. Chicago, South Side, February 1968; 49. Chicago, April 4, 1968; 50. Chicago, April 6, 1968
51. Chicago, December 196852. Montreal, Summer Solstice, 1969 -- After Supper; Also from Baraka Books
Summary When Preston Downs, Jr., alias Prez, slides down the emergency chute onto the frozen tarmac at the Montreal airport, little does he know that returning home to Washington D.C. or to his adopted city, Chicago, would now be impossible. Events had sped by after a dust-up with the Chicago police. With a new name and papers, he finds himself in a foreign city where people speak French and life is douce compared to the one he fled. Son of a World War II vet, Prez grows up in the 50s in D.C., a segregated Southern city, and learns early that black lives don't much matter. As a leader in the streets, his journey from boyhood to manhood means acquiring fighting skills to lead and unify long before losing his virginity. Smart and skeptical, but with a code of ethics, he, like every black kid, wants to be Malcolm, Martin or at least a "soul brother," which inspires fear among the powers that be. Spotted while an A student at Howard University in 1964, Prez is invited to do an interdisciplinary course with field work on Civil Rights in Chicago, a city as divided as Gettysburg was a hundred years earlier. Faced with police-state conditions, dubious armed gangs, spies and provocateurs, Prez and the young women and men he works with are propelled into a head-on fight with police. James Baldwin wrote that the blues began "on the auction block," others say it started with their kidnapping from Africa. Prez was born in exile, with the blues. Only someone who has lived through that period can write an enthralling and passionate story like Exile Blues. Gary Freeman has done so with insight and sensitivity
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed October 30, 2019)
Subject Civil rights -- Fiction
Civil rights.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781771862073
1771862076