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The Desegregated Heart
Sarah Patton Boyle
其他書名
A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition
出版Pickle Partners Publishing, 2016-10-27
主題History / Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other)History / Military / United StatesHistory / United States / 20th CenturyHistory / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
ISBN17872018999781787201897
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fwNkDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Sarah Patton Boyle’s personal crusade for civil rights began in the fall of 1950, when the University of Virginia refused to admit Gregory Swanson, the Negro student who challenged its policy of segregation. Confident that this wrong could be righted quickly, Mrs. Boyle, the wife of a professor at the University, went forth to do her share—to meet not only with the burning crosses of white hatred but with decided wariness on the part of Negroes.

Here is the story of Mrs. Boyle’s lonely struggle—the more courageous for her aristocratic Virginia background and traditional Southern upbringing. It is also the story of her painful re-education—of a Southerner’s discovery of “the real Negro, the real white man, and herself.”

A fascinating, reaffirming read.

“It should be read by everyone with the brotherhood of man.”—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“A most interesting and revealing book, honest, compassionate. The South needs it; Negroes need it; northerners need it. It is beautiful in its candor and deeply moving....”—Lillian Smith