The Book
How One Community’s Miracle Helped Push America Forward
During the so-called Urban Renewal of the tumultuous 1960s, thousands of historic Black communities were literally wiped off America’s map. The Noodge tells the remarkable story of how one such community managed to survive—thanks in large part to Joyce Bernhardt Siegel, an unlikely heroine who led a Civil Rights-era campaign that reached the highest levels of the federal government, including the President himself. This is the personal memoir of Joyce, now age 93, that’s been a half-century in the making. The book also combines investigative journalism and historical narrative, with lavish black and white photography, to explore a pivotal but overlooked chapter of our nation’s past.
Joyce Bernhardt Siegel · Photography by Alan Siegel · With Paul Boardway Tukey
Foreword by Ambassador David Saperstein · Afterword by Isiah Leggett
What you’ll find inside
- Joyce’s memoir, in her own words
- Investigative journalism and historical narrative
- Black-and-white photography by Alan Siegel
- A foreword by Ambassador David Saperstein
- An afterword by Isiah Leggett
This book tells the remarkable story in Joyce’s own words, a spellbinding tale of interracial solidarity, deep organizing, and the ceaseless struggle for justice and civil rights.
