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 To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html