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Flute in the Marching Band: (A White Woman's Non-Fiction Memoir Of The 1965 Selma March For Voting Rights) - Couverture souple

Gain, Gwen Simon

 
9781453530313: Flute in the Marching Band: (A White Woman's Non-Fiction Memoir Of The 1965 Selma March For Voting Rights)
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ISBN 10 : 1453530312 ISBN 13 : 9781453530313
Editeur : Xlibris, Corp., 2010

Biographie de l'auteur

Growing up in New Jersey the third of nine sisters, Gwen Simon Gain recognized from her earliest days the denigrating circumstances under which American Negroes were forced to live. In March of 1965, at the age of thirty-fi ve, leaving a husband and four young children behind, she answered the call of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to go one thousand miles to Selma, Alabama, to join the March on Montgomery, the state capital, there to demand the right of Southern Negroes to register and vote in local and national elections. Following the passage of the Civil Rights Voting Bill in 1965, Ms. Gain graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967 and became the fi rst paid Caucasian female to direct a volunteer organization working to end discrimination in housing in South Jersey. From 1967 to 1972, she and her group Project Free (For Real Estate Equality) brought about several major legal decisions in favor ofblack home seekers in New Jersey. Now eighty, Ms. Gain has made her home in Florida for the past thirty-two years, where she continues to write historical memoirs.

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Éditeur
Xlibris, Corp.
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1453530312
ISBN 13 
9781453530313
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
348
Coordonnées du fabricant
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