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Sarah-Lindsay Patton "Pattie" Boyle (May 9, 1906 - February 20, 1994) was an American author and civil rights activist from Virgina. She is the author of ''The Desegregated Heart'' and various articles and books about race relations in Virginia and the South. Boyle was a "faculty wife" of drama professor, E. Roger Boyle, at the University of Virginia. Boyle was the first white person to serve on the board of directors for the Charlottesville NAACP chapter.〔 She was "an outspoken advocate for desegregation in her native South."〔 == Biography == Boyle was born near Charlottesville, Virginia on a an Albemarle County plantation which dated back to the Colonial era. Her father was an Episcopalian clergyman who was the director of the American Church Institute of the Protestant Episcopal Church.〔 Boyle was a cousin to General George S. Patton. Her grandparents were veterans of the Civil War and had fought for the Confederate States.〔 As a young person, her family followed a "Southern Code" in which her family expected her to only have "formal relations with blacks."〔 Boyle grew up with black servants, who she was allowed to be friends with until she turned twelve and was inducted into the "Southern Code."〔 She also grew up with stories about her family, which also included the Revolutionary War general, Hugh Mercer, and the "great legal mind," John Mercer Patton.〔 Her father also worked to instill a sense of Christian morality and encouraged Boyle to right the wrongs she saw in the world.〔 Boyle was home-schooled because of dyslexia and didn't learn to read until she was in her teens.〔 As a young adult, she went to the Corcoran School of Art.〔 In 1932, she married drama and speech professor, E. Roger Boyle.〔 They had two sons together; E. Roger Boyle, III was born in 1939 and Patton Lindsay Boyle was born in 1943.〔 Also in the 1940s, she and her husband began to see that they were incompatible as a married couple and were later divorced in 1965.〔 Until her sons were in their late teens, she was housewife, but around 1950, she began to write magazine articles.〔 At the university, she had become friends with a black woman who was able to pass as white.〔 She also began to question her prejudices after hearing her father give a speech at Howard University.〔 Boyle became involved loosely with Gregory Swanson, who was admitted to the University of Virginia law school in 1950 after a law-suit was filed since he'd previously been denied entry due to his race.〔 Swanson's case affected Boyle strongly because she had wrongly "assumed that blacks did not associate with whites because blacks preferred it that way."〔 The Swanson case showed her that not all blacks desired segregation and Boyle began to feel that segregation was truly wrong. She wrote to him to welcome him to the university, thinking that she was one of many white people who agreed that segregation was wrong. Through her involvement with Swanson she eventually met T. J. Sellers, the editor of the black newspaper in Charlottesville, ''The Tribune''.〔 During this time, she became one of a few white supporters of desegregation in Virginia, writing hundreds of articles and speeches imploring immediate integration.〔 Her fight for desegregation was praised by name in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail."〔 Boyle died in Arlington, Virginia inside her home due to complications from Alzheimer's disease. She was buried near where she was born.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sarah Patton Boyle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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