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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Main Author: Parsons, Sara Mitchell, 1912-2001
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2000.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0585382832
9780585382838
9780817355586
0817355588
9780817388546
0817388540
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.