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Search - Freedom in the Family : A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights

Freedom in the Family A MotherDaughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
Author: Tananarive Due, Patricia Stephens Due

“History happens one person at a time.” — –Patricia Stephens Due — — Patricia Stephens Due fought for justice during the height of the Civil Rights era, surrendering her very freedom to ensure that the rights of others might someday be protected. Her daughter, Tananarive, grew up deeply enmeshed in the values of a family c... more »ommitted to making right whatever they saw as wrong. Together, they have written a paean to the movement–its struggles, its nameless foot-soldiers, and its achievements–and an incisive examination of the future of justice in this country. Their mother-daughter journey spanning the struggles of two generations is an unforgettable story.

In 1960, when she was a student at Florida A&M University, Patricia and her sister Priscilla were part of the movement’s landmark “jail-in,” the first time during the student sit-in movement when protestors served their time rather than paying a fine. She and her sister, and three FAMU students, spent forty-nine days behind bars rather than pay for the “crime” of sitting at a Woolworth lunch counter. Thus began a lifelong commitment to human rights. Patricia and her husband, civil rights lawyer John Due, worked tirelessly with many of the movement’s greatest figures throughout the sixties to bring about change, particularly in the Deep Southern state of Florida.

Freedom in the Family chronicles these years with fascinating, raw power. Featuring interviews with civil rights leaders like Black Panther Stokely Carmichael (later known as Kwame Ture) and ordinary citizens whose heroism has been largely unknown, this is a sweeping, multivoiced account of the battle for civil rights in America. It also reveals those leaders’ potentially controversial feelings about the current state of our nation, a country where police brutality and crippling disparities for blacks and whites in health care, education, employment, and criminal justice still exist today.

A mother writes so that the civil liberties she struggled for are not eroded, so that others will take up the mantle and continue to fight against injustice and discrimination. Her daughter, as part of the integration generation, writes to say thank you, to show the previous generation how very much they’ve done and how much better off she is for their effort–despite all the work that remains. Their combined message is remarkable, moving, and important. It makes for riveting reading.

ISBN-13: 9780345447333
ISBN-10: 0345447336
Publication Date: 1/1/2003
Pages: 400
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Publisher: One World/Ballantine
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Genres:

Biographies & Memoirs >> Community & Culture >> Black & African American
Biographies & Memoirs >> Historical >> United States >> General
Biographies & Memoirs >> Specific Groups >> Women
Biographies & Memoirs >> Memoirs
History >> Americas >> United States >> 20th Century >> General

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