My Race to Freedom: A Life in the Civil Rights Movement

Gwendolyn Patton's parents moved north from Alabama to Detroit in the Great Migration, ensuring that their children would avoid the worst that the post-Reconstruction South had to offer. As a young woman, Patton would return to Montgomery, Alabama, just in time for the civil rights movement, becoming engaged in protests and political demonstrations as a student at Tuskegee University. Shocked by the subjugation of black Americans in the South, she would participate in landmark civil rights events, such as the Selma-to-Montgomery March led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. My Race to Freedom is the story of how Patton's eyes were opened to the injustices of the Jim Crow South and how one young woman helped make equality a reality for Southern African Americans.

Author: Gwendolyn Patton
Publisher: NewSouth Books
Published: 09/15/2020
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781603064507

About the Author
Patton, Gwendolyn: - Born and raised just outside of Detroit, Michigan, Dr. Gwendolyn Patton moved to the city of Montgomery at the age of sixteen, immediately becoming a leader in the Montgomery Improvement Association. Patton's activism would continue throughout her young life, continuing in her roles as a founding member of the Black Alabama Democratic Conference and as a youth organizer in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Southern Christian Leadership Council. Dr. Patton earned her bachelor's in English and history at Tuskegee; her master's in history at Antioch College; and her doctorate in political history and higher education administration at Union Graduate School. After decades of leadership in higher education around the country, Patton returned to Montgomery in 1977, where she served as the city's coordinator for the National Historic Voting Rights Trail and on its National Advisory Council. Patton passed away in 2017 at the age of seventy-three.Moses, Bob: - Robert Parris Moses is an educator and an icon of the 1960s civil rights movement, known especially for his work with SNCC on voter education and registration in Mississippi. He is a graduate of Hamilton College and Harvard University. As the founder of the Algebra Project, he has received a MacArthur Fellowship and many other awards.