Freedom in the Family, Tananarive Due Due
Freedom in the Family, Tananarive Due Due
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Freedom in the Family
A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights

Author: Tananarive Due Due

Narrator: Lizan Floyd Mitchell

Unabridged: 17 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/13/2004

Synopsis

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.

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Goodreads review by ribbonknight

I read this book in preparation for Tananarive Due being one of the Guests of Honor at WisCon, a feminist science fiction convention that tries to be progressive on many social justice issues, including race. This book alternates chapters that are written by Tananarive and her mother, Patricia Stephe......more

Goodreads review by Susan

A very well done book about the Civil Rights fight in Florida. Yes, you read that right -- Florida. We think of "the South," i.e. Mississippi and Alabama, as the central locations of the fight for equal rights, but Patricia Stephens Due tells a compelling history of the fight in her home state that......more

Goodreads review by Cardyn

It's the intimate family volley of thoughts, observations, and insights within the context of regional, national, and international sociopolitical events that distinguishes Freedom in the Family from typical Civil Rights memoirs. Contrasts in points of view between parent versus child and elder vers......more

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