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From southern wrongs to civil rights : the memoir of a white civil rights activist /
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 candi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2000.
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| Colección: | Sixties--primary documents and personal narratives, 1960-1974.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxv, 184 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xvi-xxi) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585382832 9780585382838 9780817355586 0817355588 9780817388546 0817388540 |