A hope in the unseen : an American odyssey from the inner city to the Ivy League

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At Ballou Senior High, a crime-infested school in Washington, D.C., honor students have learned to keep their heads down. Like most inner-city kids, they know that any special attention in a place this dangerous can make you a target of violence. But Cedric Jennings will not swallow his pride, and w...

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Main Author: Suskind, Ron
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Broadway Books, 1999, c1998.
Edition:First trade paperback edition
Subjects:
Jennings, Cedric Lavar > Childhood and youth.
Jennings, Cedric Lavar > Knowledge and learning.
Frank W. Ballou Senior High School (Washington, D.C.) > Students > Biography.
Brown University > Students > Biography.
African American teenage boys > Education > Washington (D.C.)
African American college students > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Something to push against
  • Don't let them hurt your children
  • Rise and shine
  • Skin deep
  • To him who endureth
  • Pretender
  • Good-bye to yesterday
  • Fierce intimacies
  • Bill payers on parade
  • Bursting heart
  • Back home
  • Let the colors run
  • Place up ahead
  • Meeting the man.

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