Journey Toward Justice
Subtitle: Juliette Hampton Morgan And the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: November 25, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780820328577
Subjects: Biography: general; Civil rights & citizenship; Montgomery; Biography/Autobiography; Biography; Women; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; History; USA; Civil rights; Discrimination & Racism; United States - State & Local - General; Alabama; Women, White; 20th century; African Americans; Civil rights workers
Description: "From 1936 to 1957, in letters published in Alabama's major daily newspapers as well as in essays and private correspondence, Juliette Hampton Morgan made some of the most insightful observations on record about Montgomery's racial crises. Mary Stanton traces the development of Morgan's moral conscience amid details about her childhood, her education, and her family, which included a politically ambitious father and a strong-willed mother and grandmother." "Morgan backed her words with action. As a New Deal Democrat, she worked to abolish the poll tax and establish a federal antilynching law. She rarely hesitated to appear in integrated settings, and years before the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, she was regularly confronting bus drivers over their mistreatment of black riders. Morgan's letters had consequences: she and the newspapers that published them were vilified and threatened. Although the trustees of the Montgomery Public Library, where Morgan worked, resisted pressure to fire her, a cross was burned in her yard, and friends, neighbors, former students, and colleagues shunned her." "This biography, which acknowledges the vital work of a civil rights advocate at the local level, demonstrates the costs of speaking out in a highly conformist society. Morgan took her own life at age forty-three. No one who reads her story can easily dismiss the effects of the rebukes and isolation she endured because of her stand against racism."--BOOK JACKET.