Title: From southern wrongs to civil rights : the memoir of a white civil rights activist /
Authors: Parsons, Sara Mitchell, 1912-2001
Publisher: University of Alabama Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Parsons, Sara Mitchell,; Women, White Georgia Atlanta Biography.; Women civil rights workers Georgia Atlanta Biography.; Civil rights workers Georgia Atlanta Biography.; African Americans Civil rights Georgia History; Atlanta (Ga.) Biography.; Atlanta (Ga.) Race relations.; Atlanta (Ga.) Politics and government
Abstract: "In a memoir that includes candid diary excerpts, Parsons chronicles her moral awakening. With little support from her husband, she runs for the Atlanta Board of Education on a quietly integrationist platform and, once elected, becomes increasingly outspoken about inequitable school conditions and the slow pace of integration. Her activities bring her into contact with such civil rights leaders as Martin Luther King, Jr., and his wife, Coretta Scott King. For a time, she leads a dual existence, sometimes traveling the great psychic distance from an NAACP meeting on Auburn Avenue to on all-white party in upscale Buckhead.