Girls Survive: Daisy and the Deadly Flu African American History Hyde Park Programme

Hyde Park Programme

alongside accounts of those often overlooked because of their race

by Richard Cheek

But Keegan reserves his most affecting personal sympathy for those whose individual efforts history has not recorded—"the anonymous millions

Girls Survive: Daisy and the Deadly Flu African American History Hyde Park ProgrammeDescription by Julie Gilbert Paperback In 1918, fourteen year old Daisy's family has fallen on hard times. Her sister Elsie's fiance was recently deployed to fight in World War I, and her father's newspaper was forced to shut down for criticizing the U. S. entrance into the war. When the Spanish Flu arrives in her small town in Minnesota, Daisy tries to shield her loved ones from the devastating illness. As the influenza pandemic sweeps through the