Mitchell Margaret

From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights: The Memoir of a White Civil Rights Activist. Foreword by David J. Garrow.

2000ref. vot938Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press 2000. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by the Author. Octavo navy blue boards hardcover gilt lettering xxv 184 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: As a privileged white woman who grew up in segregated Atlanta Sara Mitchell Parsons was an unlikely candidate to become a civil rights agitator. After all her only contacts with blacks were those who helped raise her and those who later helped raise her children. As a young woman she followed the conventional path expected of her becoming the dutiful wife of a conservative husband going to the country club playing bridge. Unlike many of her peers however Parsons harbored an increasing uneasiness about racial segregation. In a memoir that includes candid diary excerpts Parsons chronicles her moral awakening. With little support from her husband she runs for the Atlanta Board of Education on a quietly integrationist platform and once elected becomes increasingly outspoken about inequitable school conditions an the slow pace of integration. Her activities bring her into contact with such civil rights leaders as Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King. For a time she leads a dual existence sometimes traveling the great psychic distance from an NAACP meeting on Auburn Avenue to an all-white party in upscale Buckhead. She eventually drops her ladies’ clubs and her deepening involvement in the civil rights movement costs Parsons many friends as well as her first marriage. Spanning sixty years this compelling memoir describes one woman's journey to self-discovery against the backdrop of a tumultuous time in our country’s history. The University of Alabama Press, (2000). First Edition. hardcover books

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