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Deep in our hearts : nine white women in the freedom movement / Constance Curry...[and others].
Van Pelt Library E185.98.A1 D44 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
- Women civil rights workers.
- Women, White--United States--Biography.
- Women, White.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- History.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- United States.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Southern States--Race relations.
- Southern States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, GA : University of Georgia Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- Deep in Our Hearts is an eloquent and powerful book that takes us into the lives of nine young women who came of age in the 1960s while committing themselves actively and passionately to the struggle for racial equality and justice. These compelling first-person accounts take us back to one of the most tumultuous periods in our nation's history -- to the early days of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Albany Freedom Ride, voter registration drives and lunch counter sit-ins, Freedom Summer, the 1964 Democratic Convention, and the rise of Black Power and the women's movement. The book delves into the hearts of the women to ask searching questions. Why did they, of all the white women growing up in their hometowns, cross the color line in the days of segregation and join the Southern Freedom Movement? What did they see, do, think, and feel in those uncertain but hopeful days? And how did their experiences shape the rest of their lives?
- Contents:
- Wild geese to the past / Constance Curry
- Shiloh witness / Joan C. Browning
- Truths of the heart / Dorothy Dawson Burlage
- Sweet tea of Shoney's / Penny Patch
- The feel of a blue note / Theresa Del Pozzo
- Circle of trust / Sue Thrasher
- They sent us this white girl / Elaine Delott Baker
- From Africa to Mississippi / Emmie Schrader Adams
- Fields of blue / Casey Hayden.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0820322660
- OCLC:
- 45253105
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