From the Mississippi Delta : a memoir /

Holland, Endesha Ida Mae, -1944

From the Mississippi Delta : a memoir / Endesha Ida Mae Holland. - New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, c1997. - 318 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. 24 cm.

Civil rights activist and playwright Endesha Holland relates her poverty-stricken childhood in Greenwood, Mississippi, her chance meeting with Robert Moses and subsequent involvement with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, her tours in the North to publicize atrocities in the South, her pursuit of a Ph.D., and her discovery of her talents as a playwright.

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African American women--Mississippi
African Americans--Greenwood
African Americans--Mississippi--Greenwood--Mississippi

F 349.G82 / .H719 1997