Refusing Racism: White Allies and the Struggle for Civil Rights (The Teaching for Social Justice Series) - Softcover

Brown, Cynthia Stokes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080774204X ISBN 13: 9780807742044

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2002

Synopsis

Why and how have whites joined people of color to fight against white supremacy in the United States? What have they risked and what have they gained? For anyone who has wondered about the character, motivations, and contributions of white civil rights activists, Refusing Racism offers rich portraits of four white American activists who have dedicated their lives to the struggle for civil rights. Drawing heavily on interviews and memoirs, this volume offers honest accounts of their thoughts and experiences and shows how their commitments are central to our ongoing history.

About this title

Book Description:

"Powerful stories of courage by whites risking life, limb, and social standing for justice. They were my role models."
—
Morris Dees
, Chief Trial Counsel, Southern Poverty Law Center

"Making the stories of white allies more visible is an important contribution to multicultural education and anti-racist literature, and I believe this book will be of interest to many educators. I am not aware of any other text which provides this kind of biographical material about white allies of historical significance."
—
Beverly Daniel Tatum
, author of
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

From the Author:

Meet the White Allies!

Virginia Foster Durr (1903–1999) was a housewife and political activist from Birmingham, Alabama, who fought against the poll tax and southern white male domination.

J. Waties Waring (1880–1968) was a federal judge from Charleston, South Carolina, who opened white primaries to black voters.

Anne McCarty Braden (born 1924) is a journalist and community organizer from Louisville, Kentucky, who defied racist real estate practices and the House Un-American Activities Committee and organized white southerners to support the civil rights movement.

Herbert R. Kohl (born 1937) is a writer and educator from New York City who authored 36 Children and twenty-five other books about education and civil rights.

Cynthia Stokes Brown is Professor of Education Emerita at Dominican University of California, and is the author of many books and articles on education and history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 080774204X
• ISBN 13: 9780807742044
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192