Rosa Lee : a mother and her family in urban America /
Dash, Leon.
Rosa Lee : a mother and her family in urban America / Leon Dash. - New York, NY : BasicBooks, c1996. - 279 p. : ill., ports. 22 cm.
Based on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family living in the projects in Washington D.C. A transcendent piece of writing, it won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. The Kennedy prize board called it a "tour de force" that "sets the standard for reporting about poverty". www.alibris.com
465070922
African American women
African American women--Washington (D.C.)
Drug addicts--Washington (D.C.)
Poor--Washington (D.C.)
E 185.86 / .D260 1996
Rosa Lee : a mother and her family in urban America / Leon Dash. - New York, NY : BasicBooks, c1996. - 279 p. : ill., ports. 22 cm.
Based on a heart-rending and much discussed series in the Washington Post, this is the story of one woman and her family living in the projects in Washington D.C. A transcendent piece of writing, it won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. The Kennedy prize board called it a "tour de force" that "sets the standard for reporting about poverty". www.alibris.com
465070922
African American women
African American women--Washington (D.C.)
Drug addicts--Washington (D.C.)
Poor--Washington (D.C.)
E 185.86 / .D260 1996
