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Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter
Mississippi Harmony Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter Author:Winson Hudson, Constance Curry Winson Hudson is a civil rights activist in her 80s from the rural, all-black town of Harmony, Mississippi. From voting rights to health care, from school desegregation to Head Start programs, and from equal housing to better roads and utilities, Hudso has fearlessly led her communitys struggle for racial justice in the heart of Ku Klux Klan ter... more »ritory. Her story, presented in her own words with historical background by noted author and civil rights activist Constance Curry, is a testimony to the trmendous challenges that black people faced on a daily basis in the segregated south, and to the remarkable courage that ordinary individuals demonstrated when they sought to enact change on a local level.« less
This is the story of Winson Hudson and how she and her sister, Dovie have tried to register to vote, which they did successfully in the 60s and their fight to have a better school for their children in their rural community;