Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement

Deep in Our Hearts is an eloquent & powerful book that takes us into the lives of nine young women who came of age in the 1960s while committing themselves actively & passionately to the struggle for racial equality & justice. These compelling first-person accounts take us back to one of the most tumultuous periods in our nation's history--to the early days of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) & Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Albany Freedom Ride, voter registration drives & lunch counter sit-ins, Freedom Summer, the 1964 Democratic Convention, & the rise of Black Power & the women's movement. The book delves into the hearts of the women to ask searching questions. Why did they, of all the white women growing up in their hometowns, cross the color line in the days of segregation & join the Southern Freedom Movement? What did they see, do, think, & feel in those uncertain but hopeful days? And how did their experiences shape the rest of their lives?Casey Hayden is the author of 'Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement', published 2000 under ISBN 9780820322667 and ISBN 0820322660.