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Freedom in the Family

A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights

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Freedom in the Family

By: Tananarive Due
Narrated by: Patricia Floyd
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Tananarive Due, best-selling author and American Book Award winner, and her mother, Patricia Stephens Due, guide listeners through the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Told in alternating chapters, their story is a triumphant memoir of their experiences with everyday people fighting for equality as members of grassroots organizations in the South. Filled with drama, heartache and rousing successes, Freedom in the Family will inspire and enlighten with its riveting account of one of America’s most progressive times.

©2003 Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due (P)2004 Recorded Books, LLC Americas Civil Rights & Liberties Cultural & Regional Freedom & Security Politics & Government United States Women Heartfelt Social justice
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This book rang true on so many levels. As a northern civil rights activist in the 60's and now as a resident of Florida, I was drawn into this book completely.

I loved the way alternate chapters told the stories of these two remarkable women.

The narrator was excellent.

Took me back to the Civil Rights era.

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After reading so many of Tananarive Due’s books, like Toni Morrison, I consider her a very significant mentor-in-my-head.
My mother and her twin sister participated in sit-ins in Tennessee and I was born during segregation.
I could see myself In Tananarive’s story and I could see my mom—at least partly—in Ms. Patricia’s story.
It opens up a way for my mom and I to co-write our memoirs as a first project.
Mom is not too enthusiastic about sharing stories of those days—which reveals to me how deep this wound is for her.
We are both healing from generational trauma, and as we heal individually, I think the combined or separate memoirs will take the shape that it takes—there is no forcing it.
So, I was so impressed and informed of how vast the civil rights movement was with all the organizations that moved the needle of justice forward in their different ways—all was needed.
This book should be required reading in high school and college levels.
The depth of both main characters are achieved in this truth-telling.
Thank you for getting this out in the world. I will be giving more copies of this nook to family members who are ready for it.

This Mother-Daughter Memoir Format is a Gift to Us All

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