![]() But by 1963, when Rice was applying herself to her fourth-grade lessons, the situation had grown intolerable. Throughout the 1950's, Birmingham's black middle class largely succeeded in insulating their children from the most corrosive effects of racism, providing multiple support systems to ensure the next generation would live better than the last. Not because she wouldn't have loved to, but because when she was a little girl in Birmingham, Alabama, Commissioner of Public Safety Bull Connor decided he'd rather shut down the city's pools than give black citizens access. ![]() But until she was twenty-five, she never learned to swim. Her achievements run the gamut from helping to oversee the collapse of communism in Europe and the decline of the Soviet Union, to working to protect the country in the aftermath of 9/11, to becoming only the second woman - and the first black woman ever - to serve as Secretary of State. "Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and concert pianist. Signed and inscribed by the author in black Sharpie on the second title page. ![]() Illustrated with both black & white and color photographs. Includes Author's Note A Note on Sources Acknowledgments and Index. ![]() New condition cream boards with gold spine lettering contained in a new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. ![]()
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