Freedom writer
Virginia Foster Durr, letters from the civil rights years
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Author
Contributions
- Sullivan, Patricia. - Contributor
Publication
2006 - University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia
Language
English
Word Count
110,500 words, Guess
Page Count
442 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100820328219
- ISBN-139780820328218
- LibraryThing7479034
- Goodreads222392
- Library of Congress Control Number2005025333
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- OCLC Control Number61529756
- Better World Books9780820328218
- Better World BooksO9-BPL-819
- Open LibraryOL3409383M
Classifications
- DDC323.092
- DDCB
- LCCCT275.D8848 A4 2006
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.
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- Biography
- Correspondence
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