Deep in Our Hearts - Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement

Klappentext Deep in Our Hearts is an eloquent and powerful book that takes us into the lives of nine young women who came of age in the 1960s while committing themselves actively and passionately to the struggle for racial equality and justice. These compelling first-person accounts take us back to one of the most tumultuous periods in our nation's history--to the early days of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)! the Albany Freedom Ride! voter registration drives and lunch counter sit-ins! Freedom Summer! the 1964 Democratic Convention! and the rise of Black Power and the women's movement. The book delves into the hearts of the women to ask searching questions. Why did they! of all the white women growing up in their hometowns! cross the color line in the days of segregation and join the Southern Freedom Movement? What did they see! do! think! and feel in those uncertain but hopeful days? And how did their experiences shape the rest of their lives? Zusammenfassung A collection of first-person accounts from nine white women who crossed the colour line in the days of segregation and joined the Southern Freedom Movement. It discusses what they saw! did! thought and felt in those uncertain days! and how their experiences shaped the rest of their lives.

Product details

• Authors: Elaine Baker, Elaine Delott Baker, Joan C. Browning, Dorothy Burlage, Dorothy Dawson Burlage, Constance Curry, Constance Etc. Browning Curry
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2002
• EAN: 9780820324197
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-2419-7
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries