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Louise Meriwether

Born

in Haverstraw, New York, The United States

May 08, 1923

Died

October 10, 2023

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Louise Meriwether was an American novelist, essayist, journalist and activist, as well as a writer of biographies of historically important African Americans for children.

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Average rating: 4.18 · 1,562 ratings · 201 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: The Givens Collection by Harriet Ann Jacobs, Louise Meriwether 4.18 avg rating — 59,505 ratings — published 1861 — 1339 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether, James Baldwin (Introduction), Nellie Y. McKay (Afterword) 4.17 avg rating — 1,489 ratings — published 1970 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls 4.58 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1971 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fragments of the Ark 3.97 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1994 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadow Dancing 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Don't Ride the Bus on Monday: The Rosa Parks Story 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1973	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The heart man: Dr. Daniel Hale Williams 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1972 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Francie's Harlem it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1988	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	rororo Entdeckungen by Christa Anita Brück, Mary Renault, Louise Meriwether it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Louise Meriwether: Daddy Was a Number Runner (Paperback); 2002 Edition by James Baldwin, Louise Meriwether, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I wanted to hug them all. We belonged to each other somehow...But that sweet feeling hung on and I loved all of Harlem gently and didn't want to be Puerto Rican or anything else but my own rusty self.”
― Louise Meriwether, Daddy Was a Number Runner

tags: african-american-literature, harlem

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“This book should be sent to the White House, and to our earnest Attorney General, and to everyone in this country able to read—which may, however, alas, be a most despairing statement. We love—the white Americans, I mean—the notion of the little woman behind the great man: perhaps one day, Louise Meriwether will give us her version of What Every Woman Knows.”
― Louise Meriwether, Daddy Was a Number Runner

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“Yeah, I thought to myself, like LSD, a black lover is the thing this year. I had seen the white girls in the Village and at off-Broadway theaters clutching their black men tightly while I, manless, looked on with bitterness. I often vowed I would find me an ofay in self-defense, but I could never bring myself to condone the wholesale rape of my slave ancestors by letting a white man touch me.”
― Louise Meriwether

tags: african-americans, blacks, interracial-relationships, relationships, sex

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This Child's Gonna Live by Sarah E. Wright

3 votes, 37.5%

Native Son by Richard Wright Paule Marshall

2 votes, 25.0%

The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes

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Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether

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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

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