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Description

Based a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles in The Washington Post, the story of a poor, middle-aged black woman from Washington, D.C., recounts her children's attempts to escape the ghetto. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.

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First Sentence

ROSA LEE CUNNINGHAM is thankful that she doesn't have to get up early this morning.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Leon Dash (Author)
 

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