{"product_id":"2940012848369","title":"You Came Here to Die, Didn't You","description":"Burnings, beatings, and ballots are what I remember about the Civil Rights Movement during the summer of 1965. I was a blond, white, eighteen-year-old student at the University of California, Berkeley, who volunteered for a voter registration project in Pineville, South Carolina because I believed in freedom and equality. Most books about the Movement are written by African-Americans or academics. This one is different. It's written by a white woman who helped make it happen.\u003cbr\u003e     Martin Luther King's compelling oratory lured me south, but reality struck the day I arrived when a barefoot black teenager clad in sweaty bib overalls challenged, \"You came here to die, didn't you,\" and it wasn't a question.\u003cbr\u003eThe rotting flesh of a woman dying without medical care ended my innocence. My reliance on safety shattered when two black passengers were beaten when the car I drove was forced off the highway. Grits and hog-head stew, mosquitoes, debilitating heat and a restricted life style tested my composure. Conviction wavered as I watched the church we attended reduced to ashes.\u003cbr\u003e     Middle-class and spoiled, I was my own biggest challenge - not the southern bigots, the white-hooded Klansmen or a regional culture much more restrictive than California’s. This book explains how I adapted and flourished.","brand":"Smokey Hill Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47081744171248,"sku":"2940012848369","price":4.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012848369_p0.jpg?v=1763573514","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012848369","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}