From the publisher’s description:
Virginia Foster Durr was a monumental champion for civil rights. A white southerner who returned to Alabama in 1951 after twenty years in Washington, she was horrified to revisit the racism of her childhood. She wrote hundreds of letters – humorous, sharp and observant – to her friends up north, among them Eleanor Roosevelt, Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, Hugo Black and C. Vann Woodward.
Published on the 100th anniversary of Durr’s birth, her letters offer a distinctive glimpse into the day-to-day battles for racial justice at a pivotal moment in American history.
Sullivan, Patricia (NHC Fellow, 2001–02), ed. Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years. New York: Routledge, 2003. ISBN 041594516X.