Another sojourner looking for truth : my journey from civil rights to black power and beyond / Millicent E. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Millicent E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women civil rights workers--Biography.

African American women civil rights workers.

African American women political activists--Biography.

African American women political activists.

Civil rights workers--South Carolina--Biography.

Civil rights workers.

Brown, Millicent E.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2024]

Summary:

Millicent E. Brown's family home at 270 Ashley Avenue in Charleston, South Carolina, was a center of civil rights activity. There Brown gained intimate knowledge of the struggle for racial justice, and those experiences set her on a life course dedicated to the civil rights struggle. Best known as the named plaintiff in the federal court case that, in 1963, forced the initial desegregation of public schools in South Carolina, her experiences as an activist range across years and well beyond her native state. Another Sojourner Looking for Truth is Brown's insightful reflection on her search for freedom in a nation deeply mired in white supremacist beliefs and overt violence against people of color.

Contents:

Cover

Another Sojourner Looking for Truth

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

1 "270" Part One

2 "270" Part Two

3 "I'm Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table": Highlander Folk School

4 "Get Her Dressed Up Pretty, MaeDe, We're Going Downtown"

5 "My Name Is Freedom!"

6 "The Dippity-Doo Revolution"

or, Grown-Ups Don't Have a Clue

7 Just "Integrating Fools"

8 "The South Is Anything below Canada"

9 "Coming Home to Daddy King"

10 "Mississippi Goddam"

11 California Dreaming

12 Coloring between the Lines

13 Change Is Not Always Progress: The More Things Change, the More . . .

14 Remembering the Past, Imagining the Future

Major Influences

Major Honors and Recognitions

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Brown, Millicent E. Another Sojourner Looking for Truth

ISBN:

9781643364926

1643364928

OCLC:

1427666000