Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement - Hardcover

Davis, Townsend

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393045927 ISBN 13: 9780393045925

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Describes sites of significance to the Civil Rights movement, state-by-state across the South

About this title

About the Author

Townsend Davis is a writer and lawyer living in New York City. His articles has appeared in the New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, and the Charlotte Observer.

Reviews

What Charles Blockson did in The Hippocrene Guide to the Underground Railroad (Hippocrene, 1994) in mapping escape routes from slavery, New York City writer and lawyer Davis does for the Civil Rights movement in the South from 1954 to 1968. Wending a path through Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, Davis marks sites of battles against segregation and of bases for building civil equality for black Americans. He sets the scene with maps and sketches of local history and adds human interest with boxed vignettes, photos, and updates of movement participants. An appendix of historic sites and a chronology reinforce both the focus on place and a sense of time in the movement. An engaging popular history and suitable travel companion, this book is recommended for collections for young adults or on civil rights, the contemporary United States, blacks, or the South.?Thomas J. Davis, Arizona State Univ., Tempe
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The civil rights era, alas, is ancient history; for the two generations born since 1960, those remarkable years can only be glimpsed in textbooks and PBS documentaries, stripped of much of the passion, sacrifice, hope, despair, tragedy, and triumph that electrified the evening TV news during the '50s and '60s. No wonder some parents, especially African American parents, and schools are planning pilgrimages to civil rights landmarks for their children. Readers designing such a trip (or curious about what's happened to places in the news three decades ago) will value attorney-writer Davis' enlightening survey of scores of locations in the southern states that played a role in the 1954^-68 civil rights struggle. Davis explores seven states (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee), moving around in roughly chronological order. Detailed maps and a mix of period and recent photographs bring places and people to visual life; sidebars offer perspective and follow interesting tangents. An effective introduction (or trip down memory lane) for readers reluctant to plunge into more demanding movement histories. Mary Carroll

Edition details

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393045927
• ISBN 13: 9780393045925
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 452