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Voice Lessons explores the rich personal and political terrain of Alice Embree, a 1960s activist and convert to the women's liberation movement of the 1970s, bringing a woman's perspective to a transformational time in US history. This riveting memoir traces the author's roots in segregated Austin and her participation inā¦
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Alice Embreeās story features growth and change.Ā From a home-town girl in a once-sleepy college town, Austin, she becomes an early Students for a Democratic Society activist, a participant in the bestāand worstāof SDS campaigns, a central workerāfirst typist, then writer and printerāin influential underground papers like Rat and especially The Rag. Embree also supported Latin-American progressives, especially in Chile. Most powerfully, she becomes a fierce and energetic trailblazer in the womenās liberation movement and the many activities that movement continues to open for all of us, even in deep red states like her native Texas.Ā Important for Americansā¦
From Paul's list on how we made change in the 1960's.
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