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Betty DeRamus

A veteran and award winning journalist, DeRamus was the jury's pick and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. She has been awarded a Michigan Press Association Award, as well as a Deems Taylor award for a profile of Roberta Flack published in... Read full bio

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Q. What’s your greatest fear?
A. My greatest fear is that I'll become a person ruled by fear. I want to continue taking risks and living a full-to-the-brim life
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Betty DeRamus's Books

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Freedom by Any Means Browse Inside Freedom by Any Means
Freedom by Any Means Con Games, Voodoo Schemes, True Love and Lawsuits on the Underground Railroad By: Betty DeRamus
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: February 3, 2009
"Much of what we think we know about African American history isn't completely true," says Betty DeRamus in the introduction to Freedom by Any Means."According to the usual story, slaves gained their freedom by running away,...
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Forbidden Fruit
Forbidden Fruit Love Stories from the Underground Railroad By: Betty DeRamus
This edition: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publication date: February 1, 2005
Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold tales of ordinary men and women who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to be together -- and defy a system that categorized blacks not only as...
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Other Formats: Trade Paperback, eBook