Black Ice by Lorene Cary

Black Ice

Lorene Cary

256 pages first pub 1991 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir race challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

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In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious black teenager from Philadelphia, was transplanted into the formerly all-white, all-male environs of the elite St. Paul's School in New Hampshire, where she became a scholarship student in a "boot camp" for...

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