Research Catalog

Title

Prisons that could not hold / Barbara Deming ; edited by Sky Vanderlinde ; biographical essay by Judith McDaniel ; introduction by Grace Paley ; photo essays edited by Joan E. Biren.

Author

Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984

Publication

• Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, 1995.
• ©1985

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Details

Additional Authors

• Vanderlinde, Sky
• McDaniel, Judith
• Biren, Joan E.

Description

xix, 230 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"Prisons That Could Not Hold weaves together diary entries, letters, and interviews to provide a very human portrait of the evolution of an individual activist and the development of contemporary "movement" philosophy." "The centerpiece of this volume is the acclaimed Prison Notes, a powerful account of the twenty-seven days Barbara Deming and thirty-five others spent in an Albany, Georgia, jail during their Canada-to-Cuba Walk for Peace in 1963 and 1964. Demanding that black demonstrators and white demonstrators be able to walk together, the peace marchers were imprisoned, leading many in the group to fast and employ other nonviolent techniques of protest. Their presence and discipline had a lasting effect on the Albany Movement and other nonpacifist civil rights groups in the South." "The remainder of the book relates Deming's final protest walk some twenty years later in 1983 with the Seneca Women's Peace Encampment, a group of women-only peace marchers scheduled to walk from Seneca, New York, the site of the first Women's Rights Declaration in 1848, to the missile base in Romulus, New York."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Deming, Barbara, 1917-1984
• Geschichte 1964-1984
• Feminists > United States > Biography
• Women radicals > United States > Biography
• Lesbians > United States > Biography
• Prisoners' writings, American
• Feminists
• Lesbians
• Women radicals
• Erlebnisbericht
• Feminismus
• Friedensbewegung
• United States
• USA

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Note

• Originally published: San Francisco : Spinsters Ink, c1985; includes Prison notes, originally published: New York : Grossman, 1966.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Prison notes -- 1964 -- Photographs: Albany, Georgia; Seneca, New York -- Seneca Writings -- 1984 -- A new spirit moves among us -- Interview -- Statement of the Waterloo 54.

ISBN

• 0820317373
• 9780820317373

LCCN

94049159

OCLC

• ocm31867410
• 31867410
• SCSB-417371

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library