In 1961, 16-year-old Brenda Travis was a youth leader of the NAACP branch in her hometown of Mc Comb, Mississippi. She joined in the early stages of voter registration, and when the Freedom Rides and direct action reached Mc Comb, she and two SNCC workers sat-in at the local bus station. That led to her first arrest and jailing, which resulted in her being expelled and leading a protest walkout from her high school. Thrown in jail for a second time, she was eventually released on the condition that she leave the state. Her poignant memoir describes what gave her the courage at such a young age to fight segregation, how the movement unfolded in Mississippi, and what happened after she was forced to leave her family, friends, and fellow activists.
One of the civil rights workers who befriended her in Mc Comb was the legendary activist Bob Moses, who contributed the Foreword to her book. A white educator and Vietnam war hero, J. Randall O’Brien, was deeply inspired by learning about her courage, and he contributed the Afterword.
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JOHN OBEE served in the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the 1960s and later worked at the Michigan Department of Civil Rights, during which time he obtained his law degree. He clerked for the Honorable Blair Moody, Jr. of the Michigan Supreme Court. For more than thirty years, he has specialized in the litigation of housing discrimination cases. He was an adjunct professor of law at Michigan State College of Law and has lectured nationally and internationally on discrimination issues.
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