And Still We Rise

by Corwin, Miles

• ISBN13: 9780380976508
• ISBN10: 0380976501
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-06
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Author and journalist Miles Corwin offers a masterfully reported and elegantly written chronicle of an exceptional inner-city high school class, Crenshaw High School in South Central Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(8)
Prologue Olivia
I Don't Want Her	9	(12)
PART ONE SEPTEMBER
Sadikifu	21	(18)
Tell Me Why
Toya	39	(13)
I Never Dreamed I Would See Sixteen
Olivia	52	(10)
My Only Safe Haven
Venola	62	(11)
My Rainbow Is Waiting for Me
Miesha	73	(10)
My Talent Is Perseverance
Mama Moultrie	83	(16)
I Touch Lives
PART TWO FALL
Toni Little	99	(9)
Learn to Compete
Sabreen	108	(11)
One Less Child to Support
Affirmative Action	119	(15)
To Treat Some Persons Equally, We Must Treat Them Differently
Sabreen	134	(9)
A Doll and a Teddy Bear
Latisha	143	(16)
Stolen Childhood
Olivia	159	(9)
Easy Money
South-Central	168	(13)
A Sunlit Ghetto
Claudia	181	(12)
Sacrifice and Pressure
Curt	193	(9)
Stanford
Mama Moultrie	202	(14)
Our Best Hope
Olivia	216	(8)
Legal Limbo
Toni Little	224	(13)
The Ride of Their Lives
PART THREE SECOND SEMESTER
Willie	237	(8)
Wishing It Was Just a Dream
Naila	245	(11)
All-American
Olivia	256	(7)
Sentencing
Toya	263	(6)
I'm Really Here
Danielle	269	(16)
Education Before Athletics
Princess	285	(15)
A Happy Ending
Toni Little	300	(9)
The Brink of Madness
PART FOUR SPRING
Olivia	309	(5)
Locked Up
Scott Braxton	314	(12)
Drained
Yvonne Noble	326	(5)
Reading Is Fundamental
Mama Moultrie	331	(12)
Can I Get an Amen?
The Fourth Substitute	343	(8)
It's Harder Than It Looks
Affirmative Action	351	(9)
Equality as a Result
Toni Little	360	(10)
I Could Use a Little More Time
The Exam	370	(7)
Where The Rubber Meets The Road
Scott Allen	377	(9)
A Different Approach
Mama Moultrie	386	(4)
Some Free Advice
Graduation	390	(11)
Still We Rise
Epilogue	401	(8)
Acknowledgments	409	(2)
Notes	411