Everybody's Grandmother and Nobody's Fool : Frances Freeborn Pauley and the Struggle for Social Justice /
Frances Freeborn Pauley, a white woman who grew up in the segregated South, has devoted most of her ninety-four years to the battle against discrimination and prejudice. A champion of civil rights and racial justice and an advocate for the poor and disenfranchised, Pauley's tenacity as an activ...
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2018]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The Life Story Of Frances Freeborn Pauley
- 1. Born in Ohio, Raised in Georgia
- 2. "About this time I began to hate the rich": The Depression and World War II
- 3. "I wasn't going to belong to anything that was all white": Democracy and Desegregation
- 4. "Trying to make a bridge": The Civil Rights Movement
- 5. "An equal chance for education": The Federal Government and School Desegregation
- 6. "Everybody's Grandmother and Nobody' s Fool": Advocate for the Poor
- 7. "Mother PUJ": Frances Pauley in Retirement
- "Talking for a Purpose": Storytelling and Activism in the Life of Frances Freeborn Pauley
- Editorial Method and Commentary
- Notes on Sources
- Index