The success of the civil rights movement demanded extraordinary courage of ordinary people. During her short life, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson became one of the most important leaders in the black struggle for equality. By age 24, Robinson's intelligence, brashness, and bravery had elevated her to a top leadership role in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Cynthia Griggs Fleming's beautifully written biography of this incredible woman demonstrates that Robinson's activism wasn't limited to racial equality ...
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The success of the civil rights movement demanded extraordinary courage of ordinary people. During her short life, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson became one of the most important leaders in the black struggle for equality. By age 24, Robinson's intelligence, brashness, and bravery had elevated her to a top leadership role in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Cynthia Griggs Fleming's beautifully written biography of this incredible woman demonstrates that Robinson's activism wasn't limited to racial equality--she was an equally eloquent and powerful voice for women's rights. Fleming provides new insights into the success, failures, peculiar contradictions, and unique stresses of Robinson's life. This book will appeal to all readers interested in African American and women's history.
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Add this copy of Soon We Will Not Cry: the Liberation of Ruby Doris to cart. $48.53, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Rowman & Littlefield Publisher.
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Ruby Doris was the forgotten superstar of the Southern Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, and this biography really does tell her story, give the reader the mood and the action of the times, the whole thing. It's ony factual flaw is that the author is too trusting when it comes to Jim Forman, Ruby Doris' predecessor as SNCC executive secretary. The author takes everything he says as gospel, but Jim was a real tale spinner not too concerrned with the truth (not to mention his long stay in mental hospitals). But on balance a really great read.
