Outside the Magic Circle
Author | : Virginia Foster Durr |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 1990-06-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780817305178 |
ISBN-13 | : 0817305173 |
Rating | : 4/5 (173 Downloads) |
Download or read book Outside the Magic Circle written by Virginia Foster Durr and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1990-06-30 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1986 Alabama Library Author Award, Outside the Magic Circle tells the remarkable story of Virginia Foster Durr, a southern white woman born into privilige who (along with her husband Clifford Durr, a lawyer best known for defending Rosa Parks), nonetheless devoted her life to Civil Rights activism. "Outside the Magic Circle is a valuable document...engaging, warm, and shrewd. [Durr's] odyssey of political commitment belongs in the collective biography of a remarkable generation of Southern liberals and radicals." --Southern Exposure