A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition
by
Sarah Patton Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Sarah Patton Boyle’s personal crusade for civil rights began in the fall of 1950, when the University of Virginia refused to admit Gregory Swanson, the Negro student who challenged its policy of segregation. Confident that this wrong could be righted quickly, Mrs. Boyle, the wife of a professor...