Wade Hudson is an author, a publisher, and the president and CEO of
Just Us Books, Inc., an independent publisher of books for children
and young adults. He has published over thirty books, including the
anthologies We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices, which received
four starred reviews; The Talk, which earned four starred reviews
and was a New York Times Best Book of the Year; and Recognize!- An
Anthology Honoring and Amplifying Black Life. These powerful
collections were coedited with his wife, Cheryl Willis Hudson.
Defiant is Wade's homage to the Black people he knew in Mansfield
as much as it is his story about growing up there. These were the
people who nurtured and loved him even as they fought for their own
survival under Jim Crow. It is also the story of a youngster trying
to find meaning and purpose in a defining era when issues such as
civil rights, women's rights, immigrant rights, and resistance
against the Vietnam War played out regularly on the news. It is
about finding one's voice and joining the fight for justice and
equality.
Wade lives in East Orange, New Jersey, with his wife.
"Absorbing, conversational memoir." -Publishers Weekly, Starred
Review
"Powerful testimony from a children’s literature legend." -Kirkus
Reviews
"This memoir offers a snapshot of a community enriched by love and
chained by systemic racism." –School Library Journal.” –School
Library Journal
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