Title Mississippi's exiled daughter : how my civil rights baptism under fire shaped my life / Brenda Travis with John Obee ; foreword by Bob Moses ; afterword by J. Randall O'Brien.

Publication Info.	Montgomery, Alabama : NewSouth Books, [2018]
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Description	1 online resource (xvi, 141 pages) : illustrations, map
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Map; 1. The beginnings; 2. The early years in Baertown; 3. My education, Brown, and Emmett Till; 4. The civil rights movement comes to McComb; 5. The emergence of direct action; 6. My first arrest and jail time; 7. The Burglund High School walkout; 8. The reformatory; 9. A devil in disguise; 10. The wandering; 11. The lure of Mississippi; 12. McComb and change; Afterword-a bronze star for Brenda; For further reading; Index
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Subject	Travis, Brenda.
	African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography.
	African American civil rights workers.
	Mississippi.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	African Americans -- Mississippi -- Biography.
	African Americans.
	African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
	African Americans -- Civil rights.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century.
	Civil rights movements.
	Mississippi -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
	Race relations.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Autobiographies.
	Autobiographies.
Added Author	Obee, John, author.
	Moses, Robert Parris, writer of foreword.
	O'Brien, J. Randall, writer of afterword.
ISBN	9781603064224 (electronic book)
	1603064222 (electronic book)

Title Mississippi's exiled daughter : how my civil rights baptism under fire shaped my life / Brenda Travis with John Obee ; foreword by Bob Moses ; afterword by J. Randall O'Brien.

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