Mississippi's Exiled Daughter: How My Civil Rights Baptism Under Fire Shaped My Life - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:J. Randall O'Brien (Afterword by), Brenda Travis, John ObeePublish date:2018-07-10Pages:160
Language:EnglishPublisher:NewSouth BooksISBN-13:9781588383297ISBN-10:1588383296UPC:9781588383297Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Memoirs, United States, HistoricalBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC7G1J4ZC2
Mississippi's Exiled Daughter: How My Civil Rights Baptism Under Fire Shaped My Life
In 1961, 16-year-old Brenda Travis was a youth leader of the NAACP branch in her hometown of McComb, Mississippi. She joined in the early stages of voter registration, and when the Freedom Rides and direct action reached McComb, she and two SNCC workers sat-in at the local bus station. That led to her first arrest and jailing, which resulted in her being expelled and leading a protest walkout...
Language:EnglishPublisher:NewSouth BooksISBN-13:9781588383297ISBN-10:1588383296UPC:9781588383297Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Memoirs, United States, HistoricalBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC7G1J4ZC2
Brenda Travis (Author)
BRENDA TRAVIS was born a sharecropper's daughter in 1945 in McComb, Mississippi. At an early age, she joined in NAACP and SNCC sit-ins and voting rights activism in her hometown. Arrested and jailed, she was banished to a reform school and then legally exiled from the state. Over the years Brenda has continued her activism. She is now retired in Apple Valley, California,...
BRENDA TRAVIS was born a sharecropper's daughter in 1945 in McComb, Mississippi. At an early age, she joined in NAACP and SNCC sit-ins and voting rights activism in her hometown. Arrested and jailed, she was banished to a reform school and then legally exiled from the state. Over the years Brenda has continued her activism. She is now retired in Apple Valley, California,...
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