About Constance
Constance Curry is a writer, activist, and a fellow at the Institute for Women’s Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. She has a Juris Doctor degree from Woodrow Wilson College. Curry did graduate work in political science at Columbia University and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Bordeaux in France. She earned her B.A. degree in History, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia.
During the early 1960’s, she was the first white woman on the executive committee of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and from 1964 to 1975, Curry was Southern Field representative for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).
From 1975 to 1990, she was City of Atlanta Human Services Director —Mayor’s appointee.
Curry is the author of several works, including her award-winning book. Silver Rights (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1995) that won the Smith Book Award for nonfiction in 1996.
Curry is the producer of a documentary film “The Intolerable Burden” based on civil rights, but showing today’s resegregation in public schools and the fast track to prison for youth of color.
She has written, edited or partnered in writing four other books about people who worked in the freedom movement. Her latest publication (Nov. 2008) was in collaboration with Bob Zellner, in his memoirs as the first white southern male in SNCC. It also received the Lillian Smith award in September 2009.
She is currently Co-chair of the SNCC Legacy Archival Project, with Julian Bond.
Women of ageless beauty are women who write history with their blood and tears for the right of children to know who they are and why they came.
