Freedom Writer
Virginia Foster Durr, Letters From the Civil Rights Years
Price: $34.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-94516-5
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 28th July 2003
- Pages: 288
- Illustrations: 10 b+w photos
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About the Book
Virginia Foster Durr was a monumental champion for civil rights. A white southerner who returned to Alabama in 1951 after twenty years in Washington, she was horrified to revisit the racism of her childhood. 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 distinctive glimpse into the day-to-day battles for racial justice at a pivotal moment in American history.