Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC [Inscribed and Signed by Noonan and Contributors Joan Trumpauer Mulholland and Bernice Johnson Reagon]

  • SIGNED
  • Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2010
By Faith S. Holsaert, Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, et all [eds.]
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2010. Very Good/Very Good. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, [2010]. Reprint. Octavo (24cm); publisher's cloth in white photo-illustrated dust jacket; [18],616pp.; half tone photographic illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, soil to rear jacket panel bleeding into bottom textblock edge, otherwise Very Good and sound.

Inscribed and signed on p. [iii] by co-editor Martha Prescod Noonan as well as contributors Joan Trumpauer Mulholland and the late Bernice Johnson Reagon. Mulholland's "Diary of a Freedom Rider" appears on p. 67, while Reagon's "Since I Laid My Burden Down" is on p. 146. Reagon organized the Albany branch of the SNCC. Mulholland was twenty-years-old when she joined the Freedom Riders. She was arrested and served two months at Parchman Farm, after which she became the first white student to enroll at Tougaloo College, where she served as SNCC's local secretary.

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