Download or read book The Emancipation of Cecily McMillan written by Cecily McMillan and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Where does a radical spirit come from? The Emancipation of Cecily McMillan is the intimate, brave, bittersweet memoir of a remarkable young millennial, chronicling her journey from her trailer park home in Southeast Texas, where her loving family was broken up by poverty and mental health issues, her emancipation from her parents as a teenager and her escape to the home of one of her teachers in a rough neighborhood in Atlanta, through graduate school to a pivotal night in Zuccotti Park, her ordeal at New York's most notorious prison, and her eventual homecoming to Atlanta and a new phase of her activist life"--