Description:
Frances Freeborn Pauley, a white woman who grew up in the segregated South, has devoted most of her ninety-four years to the battle against discrimination and prejudice. A champion of civil rights and racial justice and an advocate for the poor and...
Brief description: Kathryn L. Nasstrom is Assistant Professor of History at the University of San Francisco.
Review Quotes:
The body of the book comes directly from primary sources including Pauley's papers, letters, speeches, and a series of interviews she dictated over a twenty-five-year period, but it is not a verbatim account.... Pauley's life story is a welcome addition to the literature on the civil rights movement and women's history.
-- "Journal of Southern History"