Keep On Fighting: The Life and Civil Rights Legacy of Marian A. Spencer - Hardcover

Dorothy H. Christenson; Mary E. Frederickson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821421719 ISBN 13: 9780821421710

Publisher: Ohio University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Dot Christenson records the life story of remarkable leader, Marian Alexander Spencer, who joined the NAACP at thirteen and grew up to achieve a number of civic leadership firsts and a legacy of lasting civil rights victories.

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Review:

"Marian Spencer's story weaves together the private and the public in a way that provides a new understanding of the adage from the 1970s women's movement, 'the personal is political.' Keep on Fighting, like Marian Spencer herself, disarms the reader as we find not a story of unmitigated success and happiness, but rather a nuanced and realistic autobiography that weaves together the joys and sorrows of a long life.... Marian Spencer has much to teach the subsequent generations about resistance, equality, and the meaning of American freedom."--From the introduction by Mary E. Frederickson, coeditor of Gendered Resistance: Women, Slavery, and the Legacy of Margaret Garner

About the Author:

Dorothy H. Christenson is retired from a career in nonprofit program development and administration. Since 1970, she has worked with Marian Spencer at a fair-housing agency, the League of Women Voters, the Charter Committee of Cincinnati, Planned Parenthood, and more.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0821421719
• ISBN 13: 9780821421710
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160