TY - BOOK ID - 77895831 TI - From southern wrongs to civil rights PY - 2000 SN - 0585382832 9780585382838 0817310266 9780817310264 9780817355586 0817355588 9780817388546 0817388540 PB - Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press DB - UniCat KW - African Americans -- Civil rights -- Georgia -- History -- 20th century. KW - Atlanta (Ga.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century. KW - Atlanta (Ga.) -- Race relations. KW - Civil rights workers -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Biography. KW - Parsons, Sara Mitchell, 1912-. KW - Women civil rights workers -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Biography. KW - Women, White -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Biography. KW - Women civil rights workers KW - Civil rights workers KW - Women, White KW - African Americans KW - Regions & Countries - Americas KW - History & Archaeology KW - United States Local History KW - White women KW - Civil rights activists KW - Race relations reformers KW - Social reformers KW - Women social reformers KW - History KW - Civil rights KW - Parsons, Sara Mitchell, KW - Atlanta (Ga.) KW - Race relations. KW - Politics and government KW - City of Atlanta (Ga.) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77895831 AB - This first-hand account tells the story of turbulent civil rights era Atlanta through the eyes of a white upper-class woman who became an outspoken advocate for integration and racial equality. As a privileged white woman who grew up in segregated Atlanta, Sara Mitchell Parsons was an unlikely candidate to become a civil rights agitator. After all, her only contacts with blacks were with those who helped raise her and those who later helped raise her children. ER -