From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights [[electronic resource] ] : The Memoir of a White Civil Rights Activist

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455057303321
• Autore: Parsons Sara Mitchell <1912-2001.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 1753
• ISBN: 0-585-38283-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (213 p.)
• Disciplina: 323; 323/.092
• Soggetti: African Americans -- Civil rights -- Georgia -- History -- 20th century; Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Atlanta (Ga.) -- Race relations; Civil rights workers -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Biography; Parsons, Sara Mitchell, 1912-; Women civil rights workers -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Biography; Women, White -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Biography; Women civil rights workers - History - Civil rights - 20th century - Atlanta - Georgia; Civil rights workers - Atlanta - Georgia; Women, White - Georgia - Atlanta; African Americans - Georgia; Regions & Countries - Americas; History & Archaeology; United States Local History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword by David J. Garrow; Introduction; 1. Growing Up Southern; 2. From Buckhead to Brotherhood; 3. Running Scared for Public Office; 4. Crisis in the Bible Belt; 5. ""Men Don''t Like Women on Boards""; 6. Sunday Morning at Ebenezer; 7. Not the Best of Times; 8. From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights; 9. The Second Time Around; 10. Long Journey to a New Life; 11. The Dove Flies On; 12. What Has ; Happened to the Dream?; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This first-hand account tells the story of turbulent civil rights era Atlanta through the eyes of a white upper-class woman who became an outspoken advocate for integration and racial equality. As a privileged white woman who grew up in segregated Atlanta, Sara Mitchell Parsons was an unlikely candidate to become a civil rights agitator. After all, her only contacts with blacks were with those who helped raise her and those who later helped raise her children. As a young woman, she followed the conventional path expected of her, becoming the dutiful wife of a conservative husband, going to th