Prisons That Could Not Hold - Softcover

Deming, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0933216157 ISBN 13: 9780933216150

Publisher: Spinsters Ink, 1985

Synopsis

230 page paperback. Prison notes 1964-Seneca 1984. Collection of essays from prison by the radical activist Barbara Deming.

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From the Back Cover

Prisons That Could Not Hold weaves together diary entries, letters, and interviews to provide a very human portrait of the evolution of an individual activist and the development of contemporary "movement" philosophy. The centerpiece of this volume is the acclaimed Prison Notes, a powerful account of the twenty-seven days Barbara Deming and thirty-five others spent in an Albany, Georgia, jail during their Canada-to-Cuba Walk for Peace in 1963 and 1964. Demanding that black demonstrators and white demonstrators be able to walk together, the peace marchers were imprisoned, leading many in the group to fast and employ other nonviolent techniques of protest. Their presence and discipline had a lasting effect on the Albany Movement and other nonpacifist civil rights groups in the South. The remainder of the book relates Deming's final protest walk some twenty years later in 1983 with the Seneca Women's Peace Encampment, a group of women-only peace marchers scheduled to walk from Seneca, New York, the site of the first Women's Rights Declaration in 1848, to the missile base in Romulus, New York.

About the Author

Barbara Deming (1917-1984) was a writer and social activist. She is the author of "Prison Notes," "A Humming under My Feet: A Book of Travail," "Remembering Who We Are," and "We Have Always Lived in the Castle."

Edition details

• Publisher: Spinsters Ink
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0933216157
• ISBN 13: 9780933216150
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 230