Outside the Magic Circle The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr |
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| Editor:
| Barnard, Hollinger F. |
| Author:
| Durr, Virginia Foster |
| Foreword by:
| Terkel, Studs |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8173-0517-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1990 |
| Publisher: | University of Alabama Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $34.95 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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