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

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.

Author: Gwendolyn Patton
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Published: 09/15/2020
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.50d
ISBN13: 9781603064507
ISBN10: 1603064508
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | African American & Black
- Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
- History | United States | 20th Century

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

This title is not returnable