TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilkins,Carolyn
ED  - Project Muse,
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - They raised me up: a black single mother and the women who inspired her 
SN  - 9780826273086
AV  - E185.86 .W558 2013
U1  - 305.896073 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Baltimore, Maryland
PB  - Project Muse
KW  - Wilkins, Carolyn
KW  - African American families
KW  - African American women
KW  - Biography
KW  - African American women musicians
KW  - African American single mothers
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-149); Acknowledgments -- Carolyn's inspiring women -- A Note to the reader -- Carolyn and Sarah, Somerville, Massachusetts, August 1986 -- Lilly, Midway, Alabama, November 1896 -- Carolyn and Sarah, Somerville, August 1986 -- Lilly and Alberta, Birmingham, Alabama, 1899 -- Carolyn and Sarah, Somerville, September 1986 -- Lilly and Alberta, Birmingham, 1899 -- Carolyn and Sarah, Somerville, September 1986 -- Lilly and Alberta, Weir, Kansas, 1905 -- Carolyn and Sarah, Somerville, September 1986 -- Alberta, Anniston, Alabama, 1913 -- Carolyn and Sarah, Somerville, September 1986 -- Lilly and Alberta, Detroit, 1917 -- Carolyn and Sarah, Brooklyn, Thanksgiving -- Alberta, Harlem, 1940 -- Elizabeth and Carolyn, Brooklyn, Thanksgiving 1986 -- Alberta, Harlem, 1943 -- Carolyn and Sarah, Somerville, December 1986 -- Alberta, Harlem, 1944 -- Carolyn and Sarah, Somerville, December 1986 -- Aunt Marjory, Brooklyn, 1948 -- Carolyn and Sarah, Somerville, January 1987 -- Aunt Marjory, Brooklyn, 1948 -- Carolyn and Sarah, Somerville, March 1987 -- Alberta, Harlem, 1947 -- Carolyn, Somerville, August 1987 -- Carolyn and Elizabeth, Birmingham, January 2012 -- Notes -- Bibliography
N2  - At the height of the cocaine-fueled 1980s, Carolyn Wilkins left a disastrous marriage in Seattle and, hoping to make it in the music business, moved with her four-year-old daughter to a gritty working-class town on the edge of Boston. They Raised Me Up is the story of her battle to succeed in the world of jam sessions and jazz clubs--a man's world where women were seen as either sex objects or doormats. To survive, she had to find a way to pay the bills, overcome a crippling case of stage fright, fend off a series of unsuitable men, and most important, find a reliable babysitter
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780826273086/
ER  -