Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters From the Civil Rights Years

Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters From the Civil Rights Years by Sullivan, Patricia. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780415945165.

Virginia Foster Durr was a monumental champion for civil rights. A white southerner who returned to Alabama in 1951 after twenty years in Washington, she was horrified to revisit the racism of her childhood. She wrote hundreds of letters - humorous, sharp and observant - to her friends up north, among them Eleanor Roosevelt, Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, Hugo Black and C. Vann Woodward. Published on the 100th anniversary of Durrs birth, her letters offer a distinctive glimpse into the day-to-day battles for racial justice at a pivotal moment in American history.