Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement

Why did nine white women cross the color line in the days of segregation to join the Southern Freedom Movement? What did they see, do, think, and feel in those uncertain but hopeful days? And how did their experiences shape the rest of their lives? These compelling first-person accounts take us back to one of the most tumultuous periods in our nation's history -- to the early days of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Albany Freedom Ride, voter registration drives and lunch counter sit-ins, Freedom Summer, the 1964 Democratic Convention, and the rise of Black Power and the women's movement.