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  • My First Thirty Years

    A Memoir

    Banned in 1925. Rediscovered nearly a century later. One woman's fearless truth still demands to be heard.In My First Thirty Years, Gertrude Beasley lays bare what others only dared to whisper. Raised in poverty and violence in early 20th-century Texas, Beasley refused silence. Her memoir—blunt, bold, and decades ahead of its time—was banned shortly after publication for its searing depictions of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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    My First Thirty Years

    A Memoir

    Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 42 min

    Shortly after its 1925 publication, Gertrude Beasley's ferociously eloquent feminist memoir was banned and she herself disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Though British Nobel Prize winner Bertrand Russell called My First Thirty Years "truthful, which is illegal" and Larry McMurtry pronounced it the finest Texas book of its era, Beasley's words have been all but inaccessible for almost a ... Read more

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  • The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2

    1920 to the Present

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