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by Unita Blackwell
“Barefootin’ is a vibrant, inspirational memoir from a woman
of extraordinary courage, commitment, and creativity. This book is
required reading for all those who want to make change from the
grassroots up.” —Marian Wright Edelman, president and founder,
Children’s Defense Fund
“To read Unita Blackwell’s enthralling life story is to be reminded of
the remarkable courage and perseverance it took to bring down the prison
walls of American apartheid. In laying out the record of her life and
times, she underlines the central role played only yesterday in
Mississippi by those least regarded by their oppressors.” —Hodding
Carter III, professor of public policy, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, and award-winning journalist
“From Mississippi sharecropper to citizen of the world, Unita Blackwell
is one of the key people who changed America during the civil rights
years. Barefootin’ is moving, inspirational, and funny. And it
rings true. This book should be required reading for all who believe in
the possibilities of democracy.” —John Dittmer, author of Local
People and winner of the Bancroft Prize in American History
“There have been more acclaimed heroes of the civil rights movement than
Unita Blackwell, but none more courageous and none more colorful. Her
soul-stirring account speaks to the resilience and indomitable spirit of
a poor black woman in the Mississippi Delta who simply refused to accept
the role of a second-class citizen. Barefootin’ is about the
power of so-called little people. It is about how each of us has the
duty to help make a humane world.” —
Review written by William F. Winter,
former governor of Mississippi
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