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Sara Mitchell Parsons tells the moving story of a courageous white woman who dared to become a champion of racial justice in the heart of the segregated south.... [She] became an outspoken advocate of integration at considerable personal cost and played an important role in Atlanta's transformation into a model of civil rights progress. I wholeheartedly recommend this book. - Coretta Scott King ""Sara Parsons's efforts to integrate and improve schools and her attack on complacent white churches made her a pariah and resulted in the break-up of her marriage.... She was one of the South's first white elected officials who openly advocated racial equality."" - Atlanta Journal-Constitution ""Sara Parsons in the 1960's [was] the lone white member of the Atlanta school board to support integration.... Jimmy Carter may not have had the courage [then] to meet with Martin Luther King. But Ms. Parsons did. She met Dr. King on several occasions, even though each time it seemed to cost her another white friend."" - New York Times

From Southern Wrongs to Civil Rights The Memoir

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      Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/30/2009 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780817355586, 978-0817355586
      ISBN10: 0817355588

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      Sara Mitchell Parsons tells the moving story of a courageous white woman who dared to become a champion of racial justice in the heart of the segregated south.... [She] became an outspoken advocate of integration at considerable personal cost and played an important role in Atlanta's transformation into a model of civil rights progress. I wholeheartedly recommend this book. - Coretta Scott King ""Sara Parsons's efforts to integrate and improve schools and her attack on complacent white churches made her a pariah and resulted in the break-up of her marriage.... She was one of the South's first white elected officials who openly advocated racial equality."" - Atlanta Journal-Constitution ""Sara Parsons in the 1960's [was] the lone white member of the Atlanta school board to support integration.... Jimmy Carter may not have had the courage [then] to meet with Martin Luther King. But Ms. Parsons did. She met Dr. King on several occasions, even though each time it seemed to cost her another white friend."" - New York Times

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