Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets, Takoma, presents Marione Ingram as she discusses her new book The Hands of Peace: A Holocaust Survivor's Fight for Civil Rights in the American South.
In this sequel to The Hands of War, Ingram’s memoir about surviving World War II in a Nazi Germany that would have sent her to the death camps if not for the Allied bombing, Ingram recounts her shock at the racism she witnessed when she moved to the United States in 1952. Intimately familiar with the horrors of such hatred, Ingram quickly became deeply involved in the civil rights movement, and her inspiring account chronicles her participation in demonstrations, King’s March on Washington, sit-ins supporting the Mississippi Freedom Party, and her work with SNCC and the South’s Freedom Schools.
