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Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr, 'This extraordinary memoir by Virginia Foster Durr originated in interviews between 1974 and 1977. Hollinger F. Barnard pieced together the interviews in a way that eliminated repetition, produced a coherent and eminently readable narrative, and in the pr, Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr
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  • Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr
  • Written by author Hollinger F. Barnard, Virginia Foster Durr
  • Published by HarperCollins Distribution Services, 1987/10/01
  • 'This extraordinary memoir by Virginia Foster Durr originated in interviews between 1974 and 1977. Hollinger F. Barnard pieced together the interviews in a way that eliminated repetition, produced a coherent and eminently readable narrative, and in the pr
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List of Illustrations ix
Foreword xi
Editor's Note xv
PART ONE BIRMINGHAM, 1903-1933
1 Family, Nursie, the Church 3
2 Growing Up: Beaus, New York, Sister and Hugo 22
3 College Student and Debutante 51
4 Marriage, Junior League, and the Depression 66
PART TWO WASHINGTON, D.C., 1933-1949
5 Seminary Hill 89
6 Initiation into Politics 101
7 The Southern Conference for Human Welfare 116
8 Wartime on Seminary Hill 135
9 Poll Tax Politics 152
10 Southern Politicians 171
11 The Beginning of the Cold War and the End of the Poll
Tax Committee 183
12 Campaigning for Henry Wallace 195
13 The Anti-Communist Crowd 202
14 Cliff 210
15 The Loyalty Oath Cases 221
PART THREE DENVER, 1950-1951
16 Cliffs Back and Virginia's Petition 233
PART FOUR MONTGOMERY, 1951-1976
17 Family and Friends 241
18 TheEastland Hearing 254
19 Brown, Buses, and Bombs 274
20 Civil Rights in the Courts and on the Streets 289
21 White Southerners 303
22 Getting the Next Thing Done 322
Index 339
ILLUSTRATIONS
Grandmother Foster's home in Union Springs, Alabama 7
Aunt May, Daddy's sister 15
Mother, Anne Patterson Foster 23
Virginia at fifteen 28
Clifford Judkins Durr 68
Virginia in wedding gown, 1926 71
Cliff's father, John W. Durr, Sr., and Virginia 75
Hugo Black as Senator, the 1930s 82
Sister with Hugo, Jr., and Sterling 83
Clifford Judkins Durr, Jr., and baby Lucy with Virginia 95
Joseph S. Gelders 113
When Cliff was sworn in as FCC Commissioner 145
Lucy, Dinkydonk, Tilla, and Hiroshi at Seminary Hill 147
House at Seminary Hill, 1936 148
Jessica Romilly with Constantia 149
Denver Post, May 31, 1951 237
Cliff's mother, Lucy Judkins Durr 242
Cliff, at the Eastland hearing 265
Cliff and Judge Richard Rives 305
Virginia with Rosa Parks 332
Virginia Foster Durr 336


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