Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood Free Audiobook Download by Dawn Turner

Dawn Turner, a young African American girl living in Chicago during the 1940s, reflects on her childhood and adolescence. She and her two cousins, Pearl and Beryl, have a special bond because they're from different parts of the country but have found refuge in Bronzeville. The three must also navigate their mixed-race identities in an America that never truly integrated them.

As a daughter born the same year as Martin Luther King Jr., Dawn Turner was raised in Chicago, Illinois. This memoir follows her life from 1938 to present day. Turner's story of race and many other topics intertwine as it tells of how she grew up in the Bronzeville area where African-Americans were culturally accepted, but still faced racism and discrimination with the rest of America.

Dawn Turner was born in 1941 to a sharecropping family in the small southern town of Bronzeville, Alabama. Her father had served in World War II and her mother had raised Dawn and her two sisters on her own. Turner's memoir chronicles her life from growing up a poor black girl living during segregation, to becoming part of one of the first integrated classrooms in Alabama.

Three Girls from Bronzeville is a story about three sisters and their journey through the 1940s. Their family life, culture, and community are all explored through their eyes along with how they grow as individuals throughout their childhood. It is a heart-warming account of the importance of support in difficult times.

Three Girls from Bronzeville is a deeply emotional, lyrical memoir about three young black girls growing up in Chicago during the 1940s and 1950s. It follows their lives from their troubled childhoods as they cope with racism, poverty, family secrets, and the loss of loved ones.

She was a good girl. At least, she tried to be. She had a mother who would pinch her cheeks with her fingers and say, "You're so pretty," and a father who told her when she was little that they had to work hard because "they were black."