Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr [Signed by All Three Contributors]
- SIGNED
- [Tuscalooosa]: University of Alabama Press, 1985
[Tuscalooosa]: University of Alabama Press, 1985. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); dark grey cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xx,[3],4-360,[4]pp; illus. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper ("To Sam Pointer / Virginia Foster Durr"), and signed directly beneath by editor Hollinger F. Barnard, and author Studs Terkel, who wrote the foreword. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with a hint of sunning to spine, and some trivial wear to extremities.
Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr (1903-1999), a white civil rights activist and lobbyist from Alabama, and a close friend to both Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt. It charts the life of "a woman whose childhood in the early years of the century had frequent visits to her grandmother's plantation, whose social concern became active in old Birmingham during the Great Depression, whose political consciousness was forged in the New Deal days of Washington, D.C., and whose later years were spent in the vanguard of the New South's civil rights struggle" (from front flap). 82642.
Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr (1903-1999), a white civil rights activist and lobbyist from Alabama, and a close friend to both Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt. It charts the life of "a woman whose childhood in the early years of the century had frequent visits to her grandmother's plantation, whose social concern became active in old Birmingham during the Great Depression, whose political consciousness was forged in the New Deal days of Washington, D.C., and whose later years were spent in the vanguard of the New South's civil rights struggle" (from front flap). 82642.