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

Curry, Constance; Burlage, Dorothy Dawson; Baker, Elaine DeLott; Adams, Emmie Schrader; Browning, Joan C.; Patch, Penelope; Cason, Sandra; Thrasher, Sue; Pozzo, Theresa Del

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820322660 ISBN 13: 9780820322667

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2000

Synopsis

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?"

About this title

Review:

Every one of these stories brims with intelligence, eloquence, and courage. - Los Angeles Times

Synopsis:

A collection of first-person accounts from nine white women who came of age in 1960s America while committing themselves to the struggle for racial equality and justice. The women discuss what they saw, did, thought and felt in those uncertain but hopeful days.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0820322660
• ISBN 13: 9780820322667
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416