If White Kids Die: Memories of a Civil Rights Movement Volunteer - Hardcover

Reavis, Dick J.

 
9781574411294: If White Kids Die: Memories of a Civil Rights Movement Volunteer

Synopsis

In 1965 Dick J. Reavis, a white middle-class Texan, decided to join a voter registration programme, and spent a summer on the wrong side of the tracks in Demopolis, Alabama. This work describes his gradual maturation as he encountered the other side of legally-enforced racism.

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About the Author

Dick J. Reavis, member of the Texas Institute of Letters, a senior reporter for the San Antonio-Express News, former senior editor of Texas Parks & Wildlife and Texas Monthly, is author of The Ashes of Waco and Diary of an Undocumented Immigrant, among other books. He lives in San Antonio.

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