NOONAN, Martha Prescod Norman; Joan Trumpauer Mulholland; Bernice Johnson Reagon.
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.
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First Edition of Hands on the Freedom Plow; Signed by Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, and Bernice Johnson Reagon
First edition, early printing of these powerful personal accounts by the women of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, fifty-two firsthand testimonies from the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement. Octavo, original cloth. Signed and inscribed on the title page by three women of the movement: Martha Prescod Norman Noonan, a SNCC field organizer and one of the book’s editors, inscribed, “To Jan Freedom Now Martha P. Noonan, 4/4/12”; Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, the white Southern activist who joined the 1961 Freedom Rides and the 1963 Jackson Woolworth’s sit-in, signed, “We shall overcome! Joan T. Mulholland”; and Bernice Johnson Reagon, the SNCC Freedom Singer and founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock, has written a line from her own Ella’s Song, “We Who Believe in Freedom. Bernice Johnson Reagon.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Photograph of the editors by Tamio Wakayama.
In Hands on the Freedom Plow, fifty-two women--northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina--share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement. "These women's lives, spent in the freedom struggle, call to us. Their political insight and creativity make them American heroines; their strategic vision allows them to point a better way forward for all, worldwide, who aspire to equality and democracy" (Wesley C. Hogan, author of 'Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC's Dream for a New America').
Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC.
$1,200.00
In Stock