Diary of a Sit-In second edition.

Proudfoot, Merrill . Michael S. Mayer (intro.)

ISBN 10: 0252060628 / ISBN 13: 9780252060625

Published by University of Illinois Press, c.1990,, 1990

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University of Illinois Press, c.1990, 1st.trade paperbk.prtg., 220pp., G $.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Diary of a Sit-In second edition.
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press, c.1990,
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252060628
• ISBN 13: 9780252060625
• Binding: paperback,
• Condition: Good,

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Synopsis

In early 1960 Merrill Proudfoot was a white Presbyterian clergyman on the faculty of the predominantly black Knoxville College. He agreed to join the students in staging sit-in protests if they first tried to negotiate the integration of downtown Knoxville's lunch counters and those negotiations failed. After the negotiations collapsed, Proudfoot fulfilled his part of the bargain, at first reluctantly but later with enthusiasm, and emerged as a prominent figure in the movement. The second edition of this work includes an extensive introduction by Michael Mayer that places Diary of a Sit-In in proper perspective in the movement for use of nonviolent direct action, a chronology of events, a new after word by the author, and illustrations.
 

Review

"What emerges, and endures, is the picture of a man who, in spite of himself, had to take part and, much to his own surprise, found bravery in himself... He saw and set down a moving portrait of the south in the torment of change." -- The Nation