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Leonidas Berry and the Strength of Black Families
In 1981, after a successful career as an M.D. specializing in gastroenterology, Leonidas Berry wrote I Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now: Two Centuries of an Afro-American Minister’s Family. The title echoes a famous black spiritual, a testament of … Continue reading
Posted in Black Writers, Chicago Writing, Diversity & Multiculturalism, Social Change
Tagged Black Writing from Chicago, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Herbert Gutman, I Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, Judith Berry Griffin, Leonidas Berry, Pathways to College, Ralph Ellison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom
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