Innocence of Vision: Mississippi After the Freedom Marches
[Berkeley]: Published by the author, ©1980. First Edition. The author's account of teaching woodworking to poor Mississippi blacks during the civil rights movement. Catherine J. Webb was a white 61-year-old grandmother who was working with the Arts & Crafts Co-op (ACCI) in Berkeley when she was asked if she "would like to go to Mississippi to teach woodwork to poor people" (p. 3). Webb traveled to Jackson, Mississippi to work with the Poor People's Corporation and eventually the West Point Woodcraft Cooperative as part of Liberty House. The book is organized by her diary entries from September 1966-March 1967 and includes many photographs of the poor residents she worked alongside, as well as reprints of articles and publications concerning the group's work and the broader civil rights movement. An insightful firsthand account.
4to. Black linen tape spine, illustrated wrappers (by Kaethe Zemach), viii, 252 p., illustrated throughout. A near fine copy. Item #13674
Price: $150.00