Talk:Virginia Foster Durr

Did you know?
The frontpage Did you know section says: that in the 1950s, civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr published the names and telephone numbers of women who attended Ku Klux Klan meetings? But this isn't actually in this article anywhere? There is some information about the opposite being done, i.e. the KKK publishing names of integrationists. So were both sides using the same tactics, or has the Did You Know section got confused (or have I)? --duncan 00:45, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Mitford
Should be something on the Jessica Mitford connection... AnonMoos 01:15, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Internal Security Committee
Ms. Durr did more than just give her name to the committee. She showed the committee EXACTLY how she felt about their agenda in the following

"It was she who sat stern, ladylike and mute before a Senate panel accusing her of communist leanings. "I stand in utter and complete contempt of this committee," she told the subcommittee chairman, Sen. James Eastland, and proceeded to powder her nose on the stand as the television cameras rolled."

I got this quote from an article about Durr by Dale Russackoff a columnist for The Washington Post. The article, written in 1985. is titled "From Aristocrat to Activist" I think the part where she powdered her nose in front of the committee is absolutely wonderful and says a lot about Durr's style. It needs to be included in an article that is in real need of improvement.