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Mississippi's exiled daughter : how my civil rights baptism under fire shaped my life / Brenda Travis with John Obee ; foreword by Bob Moses ; afterword by J. Randall O'Brien.
Van Pelt Library E185.93.M6 T73 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Travis, Brenda, author.
- Obee, John, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travis, Brenda.
- African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Biography.
- African American civil rights workers.
- African Americans--Mississippi--Biography.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements--Mississippi--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- Race relations.
- History.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Mississippi.
- Mississippi--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 141 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Montgomery, Alabama : NewSouth Books, [2018]
- Contents:
- 1 The Beginnings p. 3
- 2 The Early Years in Baertown p. 7
- 3 My Education, Brown, and Emmett Till p. 13
- 4 The Civil Rights Movement Comes to McComb p. 20
- 5 The Emergence of Direct Action p. 32
- 6 My First Arrest and Jail Time p. 38
- 7 The Burglund High School Walkout p. 45
- 8 The Reformatory p. 55
- 9 A Devil in Disguise p. 65
- 10 The Wandering p. 76
- 11 The Lure of Mississippi p. 98
- 12 McComb and Change p. 113.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-135) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781588383297
- 1588383296
- OCLC:
- 1046086283
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