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Autore: | Parsons Sara Mitchell <1912-2001.> |
Titolo: | From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights [[electronic resource] ] : The Memoir of a White Civil Rights Activist |
Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 1753 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (213 p.) |
Disciplina: | 323 |
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Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights |
ISBN: | 0-585-38283-2 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910455057303321 |
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