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From southern wrongs to civil rights : the memoir of a white civil rights activist / Sara Mitchell Parsons ; with a foreword by David J. Garrow

Author
Parsons, Sara Mitchell, 1912-2001
Published
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2000]
Copyright Date
©2000
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxv, 184 pages)
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Language Note
English.
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.
Summary
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.
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ISBN
0585382832 (electronic bk.)
9780585382838 (electronic bk.)
0817310266 (alk. paper)
9780817310264 (alk. paper)
9780817355586
0817355588
9780817388546 (e-book)
0817388540 (e-book)
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text file
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages xvi-xxi) and index.
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