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I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Tension
Registration
Cruelty
Vividly
Racism
Tensions
Summer
Voter
Awareness
Boiling
Remember
Racial
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Drives
Voters

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