Everyone,

On Wednesday, 21 March 2001, at noon at the Library of Virginia, Jennifer
Ritterhouse will talk about her new edition of a classic memoir, Sarah
Patton Boyle's The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian's Stand in Time of
Transition. The New Yorker called it "candid, absorbing, charming,
unpreteniously profound," and Martin Luther King, Jr., said the "The
Desegregated Heart is a great book." I quote the dust jacket:

"When first published in 1962, Sarah Patton Boyle's narrative of personal
growth and change was highly praised and quickly sold more than sixty
thousand copies. In it we witness Boyle's often naive, but ultimately
courageous, journey from sedate Virginia housewife to civil rights activist.
Boyle's earliest desegregation efforts led her to a remarkable friendship
with T. J. Sellers, editor of Charlottesville's black newspaper, The
Tribune, whose guidance she would call 'The T. J. Sellers Course for
Backward Southern Whites.'

This reprinting of The Desegregrated Heart--including an introduction by
Jennifer Ritterhouse and never before published selections from the
fascinating Boyle-Sellers correspondence--adds significantly to recent works
that attempt to understand the civil rights movement, and recaptures the
contributions of not one but two people who proved themselves part of the
very backbone of a new racially progressive South."

Jennifer Ritterhouse teaches history at Utah State University and is the
author of the biography of Sarah Patton Boyle that will appear this year in
volume two of the Dictionary of Virginia Biography. The reprint edition is
published by the University Press of Virginia, and a book signign will
follow the talk.

Please join us on Wednesday at noon for an interesting presentation. For
more information, please call (804) 692-3592.

John

John T. Kneebone [log in to unmask]
Director, Publications and Educational Services
Library of Virginia http://www.lva.lib.va.us

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