| Description |
199 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
September 1982 -- Day by day -- Way back when -- Winter blues -- From school to work -- Winter's decoration -- Standing on my own two feet -- Mommy Dell -- Daddy -- The stars -- Finding my way -- Mother's Day blues -- Single motherhood -- Drug horror -- Civil rights and wrongs -- The stickup man -- The way things might have been -- Mothers and sons: a pain so deep -- Soap story to all my children 0 -- The start of something: by Cheryl "Shelley" Keeling -- Soaps -- A lane of my own. |
| Summary |
Can't Nothing Bring Me Down is the memoir of 101-year-old, world-record-holding runner Ida Keeling. Miss Ida, as she's known throughout her Bronx community, isn't your typical runner. Her fierce independence helped her through the Depression and the Civil Rights movement. But her greatest trials were yet to come. Ida's two sons were brutally murdered. Justice was never found. Ida felt like she didn't have the strength to carry on and she couldn't hope anymore. But encouraged by her daughter, Ida put on her first pair of running shoes at the age of sixty-seven and began to chase the paralyzing sorrow from her heart. |
| Subject |
Keeling, Ida, 1915-
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Women runners -- United States -- Biography.
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Women runners. (OCoLC)fst01178481
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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| Added Author |
Diggs, Anita Doreen, author.
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| Added Title |
Cannot nothing bring me down |
| ISBN |
9780310349891 hardcover |
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0310349893 hardcover |
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9780310350644 electronic book |
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