Author: Perry, Mark,
Title: Lift Up Thy Voice: the Grimke family's journey from slaveholders to civil rights leaders.
Description: NY, Viking, (2001). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Story of race consciousness & politics in America told throughout the lives of one extraordinary family. In 1868 when. Angelina & Sarah discovered that their now deceased brother had had children with one of his slaves, they invited their nephews into their lives, helped educate them, & gave them the means to start a new life in postbellum America. The nephews continued to fight for equality & became two of the most noted African Americans of their time, one an influential Presbyterian minister & the other a lawyer, diplomat, writer & editor. They helped to found the NAACP.

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