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What kind of bird can't fly : a memoir of resilience and resurrection / Dorsey Nunn with Leora Romney.

Nunn, Dorsey, 1951- (author.). Romney, Leora, (author.).

Summary:

"Charts Dorsey Nunn's journey growing up poor and criminalized in East Palo Alto, surviving San Quentin, coming back to his community, and founding All Of Us Or None to empower formerly incarcerated people to fight for their rights as citizens"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781597146326
ISBN: 1597146323
Physical Description: xv, 349 pages, 8 unumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22cm
Publisher: Berkeley, California : Heyday, [2024]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Innocence unavailable, guilt not required -- Gladiator school -- Commitment to kill -- Mao's Little Red Book -- Lifelines -- The legal avenue -- a different way to fight -- Stepping up my game -- Fatherhood -- What kind of bird can't fly? -- Breathing room -- Class analysis -- Running shoes -- Free at last -- Preaching to the choir -- All of us or none -- Ban the box -- The concrete tomb -- "I speak for myself. I vote." -- From the prison gate to the White House gate -- The shape of the hole I left behind -- Homecoming -- "Slave, who is it that shall free you?".