Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Brown, Warren, 1948-

Description

1. xx, 265 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 20 cm

Summary

1. Washington Post reporters Hamilton and Brown became a news story themselves when Hamilton's donation of a kidney to Brown became a symbol of their interracial friendship in a racially divided society. In this joint memoir, they describe the development of their friendship, the decision to donate, the operation itself, and the reaction of other people to the story. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Alternative title

1. Black & white & red all over

Subject

1. Hamilton, Martha McNeil
2. Brown, Warren, 1948-
3. Hamilton, Martha McNeil
4. Washington post (Washington, D.C. : 1974)
5. Friendship > United States > Case studies
6. Donation of organs, tissues, etc. > United States > Case studies
7. Women, White > United States > Biography
8. African American men > Biography
9. Women
10. Women
11. women (female humans)
12. African American men
13. Donation of organs, tissues, etc
14. Friendship
15. Race relations
16. Women, White
17. United States > Race relations > Case studies
18. Washington Region > Biography
19. Houston (Tex.) > Biography
20. New Orleans (La.) > Biography
21. United States
22. Louisiana > New Orleans
23. Texas > Houston
24. Washington (D.C.) Region

Genre/Form

1. Biography
2. Case Reports
3. collective biographies.
4. Biographies
5. Case studies
6. Biographies.
7. Case studies.
8. Études de cas.

Contents

1. Growing up with Jim Crow -- The 1970s: falling apart, coming together -- The three of us -- Life is more important than that -- Hypertension -- Losing it -- Waiting -- Slicing and dicing: the surgery -- Recovery -- The parts department -- The better angels of our nature -- Last words.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Includes index.