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Freedom writer : Virginia Foster Durr, letters from the civil rights years

Author: Virginia Foster Durr; Patricia Sullivan
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Correspondence
Correspondance
Biography
Biographies
Named Person: Virginia Foster Durr; Clifford J Durr; Virginia Foster Durr; Clifford J Durr; Virginia Foster Durr
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Virginia Foster Durr; Patricia Sullivan
ISBN: 041594516X 9780415945165 9780203484784 0203484789
OCLC Number: 52347481
Description: xiv, 442 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Going home to Alabama, 1951-1955 --
The Montgomery bus boycott and after, 1956-1960 --
The movement at high tide, 1961-1965 --
"A big change has come," 1966-1968.
Responsibility: edited by Patricia Sullivan.
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"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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