Deep in Our Hearts : Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement

by Curry, Constance; Browning, Joan C.; Burlage, Dorothy Dawson; Patch, Penny; Del Pozzo, Theresa; Thrasher, Sue; Baker, E. D.; Adams, Emmie Schrader; Hayden, Casey; Curry, Constance

• ISBN13: 9780820322667
• ISBN10: 0820322660
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr

Summary

Deep in Our Hearts is an eloquent and powerful book that takes us into the lives of nine young women who came of age in the 1960s while committing themselves actively and passionately to the struggle for racial equality and justice. These compelling first-person accounts take us back to one of the most tumultuous periods in our nation's history -- to the early days of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Albany Freedom Ride, voter registration drives and lunch counter sit-ins, Freedom Summer, the 1964 Democratic Convention, and the rise of Black Power and the women's movement. The book delves into the hearts of the women to ask searching questions. Why did they, of all the white women growing up in their hometowns, cross the color line in the days of segregation and join the Southern Freedom Movement? What did they see, do, think, and feel in those uncertain but hopeful days? And how did their experiences shape the rest of their lives?

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Barbara Ransby
Preface	xiii
Wild Geese to the Past	1	(36)
Constance Curry
Shiloh Witness	37	(48)
Joan C. Browning
Truths of the Heart	85	(46)
Dorothy Dawson Burlage
Sweet Tea at Shoney's	131	(40)
Penny Patch
The Feel of a Blue Note	171	(36)
Theresa del Pozzo
Circle of Trust	207	(46)
Sue Thrasher
They Sent Us This White Girl	253	(36)
Elaine Delott Baker
From Africa to Mississippi	289	(44)
Emmie Schrader Adams
Fields of Blue	333	(44)
Casey Hayden
Acknowledgments	377	(4)
The Authors	381	(6)
Index	387