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Mississippi's exiled daughter : how my civil rights baptism under fire shaped my life.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Travis, Brenda.
- 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.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Race relations.
- Mississippi--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Mississippi.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (113 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- La Vergne : NewSouth Books, 2018.
- Summary:
- In 1961, 16-year-old Brenda Travis was a youth leader of the NAACP branch in her hometown of McComb, Mississippi. She joined in the early stages of voter registration, and when the Freedom Rides and direct action reached McComb, she and two SNCC workers sat-in at the local bus station. That led to her first arrest and jailing, which resulted in her being expelled and leading a protest walkout from her high school. Thrown in jail for a second time, she was eventually released on the condition that she leave the state. Her poignant memoir describes what gave her the courage at such a young age to fight segregation, how the movement unfolded in Mississippi, and what happened after she was forced to leave her family, friends, and fellow activists. One of the civil rights workers who befriended her in McComb was the legendary activist Bob Moses, who contributed the Foreword to her book. A white educator and Vietnam war hero, J. Randall O'Brien, was deeply inspired by learning about her courage, and he contributed the Afterword.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Map
- 1. The Beginnings
- 2. The Early Years in Baertown
- 3. My Education, Brown, and Emmett Till
- 4. The Civil Rights Movement Comes to McComb
- 5. The Emergence of Direct Action
- 6. My First Arrest and Jail Time
- 7. The Burglund High School Walkout
- 8. The Reformatory
- 9. A Devil in Disguise
- 10. The Wandering
- 11. The Lure of Mississippi
- 12. McComb and Change
- Afterword-A Bronze Star for Brenda
- For Further Reading
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-60306-422-2
- OCLC:
- 1046977900
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