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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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Autor principal: Nasstrom, Kathryn L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
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