Journey toward justice : Juliette Hampton Morgan and the Montgomery Bus Boycott / Mary Stanton
- Bib ID:
- 3884901
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Stanton, Mary, 1946-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, c2006
- xiii, 262 p., [14] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780820328577
- 082032857X
- Summary:
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"From 1936 to 1957, in letters published in Alabama's major daily newspapers as well as in essays and private correspondence, Juliette Hampton Morgan made some of the most insightful observations on record about Montgomery's racial crises. Mary Stanton traces the development of Morgan's moral conscience amid details about her childhood, her education, and her family, which included a politically ambitious father and a strong-willed mother and grandmother."
"Morgan backed her words with action. As a New Deal Democrat, she worked to abolish the poll tax and establish a federal antilynching law. She rarely hesitated to appear in integrated settings, and years before the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, she was regularly confronting bus drivers over their mistreatment of black riders. Morgan's letters had consequences: she and the newspapers that published them were vilified and threatened. Although the trustees of the Montgomery Public Library, where Morgan worked, resisted pressure to fire her, a cross was burned in her yard, and friends, neighbors, former students, and colleagues shunned her."
"This biography, which acknowledges the vital work of a civil rights advocate at the local level, demonstrates the costs of speaking out in a highly conformist society. Morgan took her own life at age forty-three. No one who reads her story can easily dismiss the effects of the rebukes and isolation she endured because of her stand against racism."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Montgomery, Alabama, 1957
- Beginnings : 1900-1930
- The university : 1930-1935
- Back home : 1936-1938
- Another direction : 1938-1942
- The war years : 1943-1945
- Alabama democracy : 1946-1949
- Segregationists and subversives : 1950-1953
- Brown v. Board of Education : 1954-1955
- Mohandas Gandhi and Jim Crow : 1955-1956
- A matter of law : 1956
- A death warrant : 1957.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Morgan, Juliette Hampton, 1914-1957
- Civil rights workers -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography
- Women, White -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- Biography
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century
- Segregation in transportation -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century
- Boycotts -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century
- Liberalism -- Alabama -- Montgomery -- History -- 20th century
- Montgomery (Ala.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
- Montgomery (Ala.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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- Publication date:
- 2006
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