No history of the civil rights era in the South would be complete
without an account of the remarkable life and career of Grace Towns
Hamilton, the first African American woman in the Deep South to be
elected to a state legislature.
A national official of the Young Women's Christian Association
early in her career, Hamilton later headed the Atlanta Urban
League, where she worked within the confines of segregation to
equalize African American access to education, health care, and
voting rights. In the Georgia legislature from 1965 until 1984, she
exercised considerable power as a leader in the black struggle for
local, state, and national offices, promoting interracial
cooperation as the key to racial justice. Her probity and
moderation paved the way for the election of other black women, and
by the end of her political career no southern legislature was
without women members of her race.
Lorraine Nelson Spritzer and Jean B. Bergmark examine two
generations of African American history to give the long view of
Hamilton's activism. The life spans of Hamilton and her father, an
Atlanta University professor who was her greatest mentor,
encompassed the best and worst of the African American experience,
inevitably shaping Hamilton's outlook and achievements.
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