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Scalawag: a White Southerner's Journey Through Segregation to Human Rights Activism

Scalawag: a White Southerner's Journey Through Segregation to Human Rights Activism( )
Author: Peeples, Edward H.
Editor: MacLean, Nancy
ISBN:978-1-306-34819-5
Publication Date:Jan 2014
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $45.00
Book Description:

"Scalawag" tells the surprising story of a white working-class boy who became an unlikely civil rights activist. Born in 1935 in Richmond, where he was sent to segregated churches and schools, Ed Peeples was taught the ethos and lore of white supremacy by every adult in his young life. That message came with an equally cruel one that, as the child of a wage-earning single mother, he was destined for failure.

But by age nineteen Peeples became what the whites in his world...
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Pages:256



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