Freedom writer
Subtitle: Virginia Foster Durr, letters from the civil rights years
By: edited by Patricia Sullivan.
Contributors: Sullivan, Patricia.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
Subjects: Durr, Virginia Foster -- Correspondence; Durr, Clifford -- Correspondence; Civil rights workers -- United States -- Correspondence; Lawyers' spouses -- United States -- Correspondence; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century; Alabama -- Biography
Genres: Correspondence.; Biography.
Description: "Virginia Foster Durr was a monumental champion for civil rights. A white southerner who returned to Alabama in 1951 after twenty years in Washington, D.C., she was horrified to revisit the racism of her childhood. In her struggle to understand the South and battle isolation, she wrote hundreds of letters - humorous, sharp, and observant - to her friends up north, among them Eleanor Roosevelt, Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, Hugo Black, and C. Vann Woodward." "Published on the 100th anniversary of Durr's birth, her letters offer a window onto a society in turmoil, chronicling the events that transformed the South and the nation. Her writing adds a distinctive glimpse into the day-to-day battles for racial justice at a pivotal moment in American history."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-432) and index.
Table of contents: title: Going home to Alabama, 1951-1955; title: The Montgomery bus boycott and after, 1956-1960; title: The movement at high tide, 1961-1965; title: "A big change has come," 1966-1968.