Freedom in the Family
A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights

I read this book in preparation for Tananarive Due being one of the Guests of Honor at WisCon, a feminist science fiction convention that tries to be progressive on many social justice issues, including race. This book alternates chapters that are written by Tananarive and her mother, Patricia Stephe......more

A very well done book about the Civil Rights fight in Florida. Yes, you read that right -- Florida. We think of "the South," i.e. Mississippi and Alabama, as the central locations of the fight for equal rights, but Patricia Stephens Due tells a compelling history of the fight in her home state that......more

It's the intimate family volley of thoughts, observations, and insights within the context of regional, national, and international sociopolitical events that distinguishes Freedom in the Family from typical Civil Rights memoirs. Contrasts in points of view between parent versus child and elder vers......more