Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust's memoir of growing up in a conservative family in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley in the 1950s and 1960s, and of breaking with its assumptions about race and gender. She describes her awakening to segregation and the civil rights movement, her student years at Bryn Mawr and the protests of the era that set her on the path to becoming a historian.
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