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...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2000.
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| Edice: | Sixties--primary documents and personal narratives, 1960-1974.
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| On-line přístup: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=55888 |
| Shrnutí: | 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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| Fyzický popis: | 1 online resource (xxv, 184 pages) |
| Médium: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliografie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xvi-xxi) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585382832 9780585382838 9780817355586 0817355588 9780817388546 0817388540 0817310266 9780817310264 |