A bus ride into history
Kathryn E. Lewis
Describes the life of Rosa Parks and the historical significance of her refusal to sit in the back of a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955.
Read Time: ~7.4 hr
Freedom writer
by Patricia Sullivan (2003)
About this 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, D.C., she was horrified to revisit the racism of her childhood. In her struggle to understand the South and battle isolation, 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 window onto a society in turmoil, chronicling the events that transformed the South and the nation. Her writing adds a distinctive glimpse into the day-to-day battles for racial justice at a pivotal moment in American history."--Jacket.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreFreedom writer Lead Character
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