Outside the Magic Circle
Subtitle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr
By: Edited by Hollinger F. Barnard; with a foreword by Studs Terkel.
Contributors: Barnard, Hollinger F., 1943-
Edition: 1st Touchstone ed.
Series: A Touchstone book
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Durr, Virginia Foster; Durr, Clifford; Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography; Lawyers' spouses -- United States -- Biography; New Deal, 1933-1939; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: The story of Virgina Foster Durr's metamorphosis from Southern belle to New Deal liberal to a matriarch of the civil rights movement brings alive one woman's determined passage through a climatic era in American history. Her autobiography heralds the woman's movement and captures the firey history and spirit of social change in our time.
Notes: Includes index.