Honigsberg/Crossing Border Street

Abstract: A 3 page book review that examines Peter Honigsberg's memoir Crossing Border Street (2000), which relates what it was like to be one of the young, idealistic northern whites who came south in response to the cause of black civil rights in the 1960s. The point of this text is to convey not only the idealism that Honigsberg felt as a young man, but also the complexity of the situation and how the experience both changed him and directed his life. In so doing, he relates an insightful and gripping narrative that demonstrates how the process of involvement in political activism can change the individual, as well as aiding the issue. No additional sources cited.

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