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Author Nasstrom, Kathryn L.

Title Everybody's grandmother and nobody's fool : Frances Freeborn Pauley and the struggle for social justice / Kathryn L. Nasstrom ; foreword by Julian Bond.

Imprint Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, c2000.

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Description xi, 221 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Born in Ohio, raised in Georgia -- "About this time I began to hate the rich": the Depression and World War II -- "I wasn't going to belong to anything that was all white": democracy and desegregation -- "Trying to make a bridge": the Civil Rights Movement -- "An equal chance for education": the Federal government and school desegregation -- "Everybody's grandmother and nobody's fool": advocate for the poor -- "Mother PUJ": Frances Pauley in retirement -- "Talking for a purpose": storytelling and activism in the life of Frances Freeborn Pauley.
Subject Pauley, Frances Freeborn, 1905-2003.
Women social reformers -- Georgia -- Biography.
Women civil rights workers -- Georgia -- Biography.
ISBN 0801437822

 
    
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