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

Patton, Gwendolyn

 
9781603064507: My Race to Freedom: A Life in the Civil Rights Movement

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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À propos de l?auteur

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

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