As the fight for equal rights continues, Defiant takes a critical look at the strides and struggles of the past in this revelatory and moving memoir about a young Black man Growing up in the South during the heart of the Civil Rights Movement.
Wade lives in East Orange, New Jersey, with his wife..
It is about finding one\'s voice and joining the fight for justice and equality.
It is also the story of a youngster trying to find meaning and purpose in a defining era where issues such as civil rights, women\'s rights, immigrant rights, and resistance against the Vietnam War played out regularly on the news.
These were the people who nurtured and loved him even as they fought for their own survival under Jim Crow.
Defiant is Wade\'s homage to the Black people he knew in Mansfield as much as it is his story about Growing up there.
These powerful collections were co-edited with his wife, Cheryl Willis Hudson.
He has published over thirty books, including the anthologies We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices, which received four starred reviews
The Talk, which earned four starred reviews and was a New York Times Best Book of the Year; and Recognize: Black Lives Matter.
About author(s): Wade Hudson is an author, a publisher, and the president and CEO of Just Us Books, Inc., an independent publisher of books for children and young adults.
This powerful memoir reveals the struggles, joys, love, and ongoing resilience that it took to grow up Black in segregated America, and the lessons that carry over to our fight for a better future.
From his family, his community, and his college classmates, Wade learned the importance of fighting for change by confronting the laws and customs that marginalized and demeaned people.
Most important, Wade learned how to find his voice and use it.
Getting into scuffles in the schoolyard, playing baseball on a team he put together, immersing himself in his church community, and starting to write.
Amidst it all, Wade was Growing up.
From their home on Mary Street, his close-knit family watched as the country grappled with desegregation, as the Klan targeted the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and as systemic racism struck across the nation and in their hometown.
Born in 1946 in Mansfield, Louisiana, Wade Hudson came of age against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement.
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As the fight for equal rights continues, Defiant takes a critical look at the strides and struggles of the past in this revelatory and moving memoir about a young Black man Growing up in the South during the heart of the Civil Rights Movement
