My mantelpiece
Subtitle: a memoir of survival and social justice
By: Carolyn Goodman with Brad Herzog ; foreword by Maya Angelou
Publisher: Why Not Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Pacific Grove, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780984991945
Subjects: Women political activists; Human rights; History; Social justice; Leadership; Social conditions; Civil rights workers; Biography; Women
Description: Carolyn Goodman's life was punctuated by tragedy, including a brother's premature death, childhood molestation, a father's suicide, and a son's infamous murder. But hers is foremost a tale of survival, of turning personal anguish into social conscience. When her twenty-year-old son, Andy, was one of three civil rights volunteers to disappear in Mississippi in the summer of 1964, the story galvanized the nation. A half century after the Mississippi murders, this is the first time that a victims family member has expounded about the experience and the myriad emotions from guilt to resolve that it spawned. More than simply a memoir, My Mantelpiece is the story of a century's seminal progressive movements seen through the lens of a remarkable woman's singular journey