Refusing Racism: White Allies and the Struggle for Civil Rights: Teaching for Social Justice Series

Meet the White Allies!

Virginia Foster Durr (1903-1999) was a housewife and political activist from Birmingham, Alabama, who fought against the poll tax and southern white male domination.

J. Waties Waring (1880-1968) was a federal judge from Charleston, South Carolina, who opened white primaries to black voters.

Anne McCarty Braden (born 1924) is a journalist and community organizer from Louisville, Kentucky, who defied racist real estate practices and the House Un-American Activities Committee and organized white southerners to support the civil rights movement.

Herbert R. Kohl (born 1937) is a writer and educator from New York City who authored 36 Children and twenty-five other books about education and civil rights.

Cynthia Stokes Brown is Professor of Education Emerita at Dominican University of California, and is the author of many books and articles on education and history.