Grace Towns Hamilton and the Politics of Southern Change
- List Price: $16.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Edition: 1980
- Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
- Publish date: 09/01/1998
Description:
No history of the civil rights era would be complete without an account of the remarkable life and career of Grace Towns Hamilton, the first African American woman in the Deep South to be elected to a state legislature. As head of the Atlanta Urban League, Hamilton worked to equalize African American access to education, health care, and voting rights. In the Georgia legislature from 1965-1984, she promoted interracial cooperation as the key to racial justice. She paved the way for the election of other black women, and by the end of her political career no southern legislature was without African American women members.
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