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Dropping Out

Dropping Out

Dropping Out

Robert Wood Darby

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Editorial:
Lulu Press
Año de edición:
2020
Materia
Biografía: general
ISBN:
9780359886692
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Autobiographical work by and about Bob Darby, a lifelong human rights activist. Darby came of age as a privileged Caucasian in the segregated South during the civil rights era. America was immersed in a war at home as well as the Vietnam War.When Darby graduated from Emory University and enrolled at Ivy League schools in the East - Harvard and Tufts - he found many comrades who shared his admiration for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Riders as well as his dedication to the anti-war movement. Darby embraced the freedom of the last 1960’s.

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