My Race to Freedom: A Life in the Civil Rights Movement - Softcover

Gwendolyn Patton (author)|Bob Moses (foreword By)

 
9781603064507: My Race to Freedom: A Life in the Civil Rights Movement
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1603064508 ISBN 13: 9781603064507
Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2020

Synopsis

Gwendolyn Patton's parents moved north from Alabama to Detroit in the Great Migration, ensuring that their children would avoid the worst that the post-Reconstruction South had to offer. As a young woman, Patton would return to Montgomery, Alabama, just in time for the civil rights movement, becoming engaged in protests and political demonstrations as a student at Tuskegee University. Shocked by the subjugation of black Americans in the South, she would participate in landmark civil rights events, such as the Selma-to-Montgomery March led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. My Race to Freedom is the story of how Patton's eyes were opened to the injustices of the Jim Crow South and how one young woman helped make equality a reality for Southern African Americans.

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About the Author

GWENDOLYN PATTON (1943-2017) was leading civil rights activist and educator.

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Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1603064508
ISBN 13 
9781603064507
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
384