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...decades after the movement's greatest triumphs, a more complex portrait of those days is emerging in a harvest of books by scholars and journalists. Two of the best are Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement by Constance Curry, and Freedom's Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970 by Lynne Olson...
According to Stone, the players on the Crimson third line--freshmen Mina Pell, Lauren McAuliffe and junior Vanessa Bazzochi were the unsung heroes of the victory...
...silently, in hospices and hospital wards and in isolation in their homes. The front-line troops in this war are the gentle souls who have committed themselves to the saintly task of attending to the dying. As I accompanied caregivers on their rounds, I was awed by their selfless, unsung devotion. Where hope no longer existed, they replaced it with comfort and dignity...
While I had not been to see Lola in a long time, something I now deeply regret, I will never forget her. There was the biggest person in that little deli worker, an unsung hero whose smile cut across ethic, racial and class lines. Lola was special because she gave people the courage to come together when they could not do it themselves...
Fred Gray, the attorney who defended Rosa Parks in the Alabama courts, said it was important not to forget that many unsung actors also contributed to the civil rights movement...