Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter

  • New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002
By [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] HUDSON, Winson and Constance Curry (text); BELL, Derrick (foreword)
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in copper on spine; dustjacket; xxvi,150pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with some light surface wear, a faint scratch to rear panel, and a tiny stain to base of spine. Memoir of African American civil rights worker Winsome Hudson, a native of Harmony, Mississippi, who with her sister Dovie filed the first lawsuit to desegregate public schools in their area. She helped to establish the county NAACP in 1961, and served as its president for 38 years. 83750.

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