“A MUST-READ FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO KNOW HOW MOVEMENT IS MADE AND SUSTAINED.”
—JULIAN BOND
Chairman of the NAACP

“An important, affecting joint memoir that examines the struggles of … the civil rights movement.”

—Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“Compelling … Testaments to the unsung women of the civil rights movement and the visionary local leaders who often toiled in obscurity while facing savagery they knew would go unavenged.”

—Newark Star-Ledger

“A fascinating and important new book … A memoir so absorbing and essential that it takes two people to tell.”

—Oregonian

“This book is the celebration of an extraordinary woman’s life; it’s well written, interesting, and certainly not the end of the story.”

—The Denver Post

“An ennobling insider’s look at the civil rights movement. Patricia and Tananarive Due are two of my new heroes.”

—CHARLES JOHNSON

National Book Award–winning author of Middle Passage

“Underscores the fact that for blacks in America, the struggles of the past are definitely not past. A must-read tale … that connects the dots between then and now.”

—NATHAN MCCALL

Author of Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America

“POWERFUL …

Mother and daughter write with an energy that is cathartic in its recounting of past obstacles, and optimistic in its hopes for the future.”

—Publishers Weekly

“A living testament to the enduring personal and family consequences of the struggle for freedom and equality.”

—GLENDA ALICE RABBY

Author of The Pain and the Promise:
The Struggle for Civil Rights in Tallahassee, Florida

“The Dues make it easy for the reader to transition from past to present, but impossible to overlook the sweet sorrow of a mother and daughter having to walk some of the same testy ground on matters racial.”

—DEBORAH MATHIS

Author of Yet a Stranger:
Why Black Americans Still Don’t Feel at Home

“This book, an insider’s look at the twentieth-century civil rights movement, is personal history at its best.”

—Deseret News (Salt Lake City)

“Freedom in the Family … succeeds at doing exactly what the Dues wanted: to write of ordinary people, black and white, doing extraordinary things.”

—Book Street USA

“Rare is the book that can take a reader through two generations of activism—and from two women’s points of view. That makes Freedom in the Family a unique way of exploring history and change.”

—Cape Cod Times

“Readers will quite likely be both charmed and educated by these dedicated, candid, brilliant women.”

—Kirkus Reviews