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Author Jawando, Will, 1983- author.

Title My seven Black fathers : a young activist's memoir of race, family, and the mentors who made him whole / Will Jawando.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  975.284 J329Bj 2022    ---  Available
1 copy being processed for Axe Acquisitions Order.
Edition First edition.
Description 231 pages ; 22 cm
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Contents Introduction -- Joseph Jacob -- Mr. Williams -- Jay Fletcher -- Wayne Holmes -- Deen Sanwoola -- Barack Obama -- Olayinka Jawando.
Summary "A memoir by the lawyer, activist, and county councilman Will Jawando"-- Provided by publisher.
As a boy growing up outside DC, Jawando, who went by his Nigerian name, Yemi, was shunted from school to school, never quite fitting in. He was a Black kid with a divorced white mother, a frayed relationship with his biological father, and teachers who scolded him for being disruptive in class and on the playground. Here he looks back on the relationships with an extraordinary series of mentors that enabled him to thrive. Without the influence of these men, Jawando knows he would not be who he is today: a civil rights and education policy attorney, a civic leader, a husband, and a father. -- adapted from jacket
Subject Jawando, Will, 1983- -- Childhood and youth.
African American men -- Maryland -- Montgomery County -- Biography.
African Americans -- Maryland -- Social conditions.
African Americans -- Maryland -- Biography.
Role models -- Maryland -- Biography.
Nigerian Americans -- Maryland -- Biography.
Montgomery County (Md.) -- Biography.
African American men. (OCoLC)fst00799236
African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
African Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799698
Nigerian Americans. (OCoLC)fst01037585
Role models. (OCoLC)fst01099622
Maryland. (OCoLC)fst01204739
Maryland -- Montgomery County. (OCoLC)fst01206093
Genre/Form Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780374604875 hardcover
0374604878 hardcover

 
    
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