VOICES OF FREEDOM - An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s

Hampton, Henry; Fayer, Steve (project notes by Robert Lavelle)

ISBN 10: 0553352326 / ISBN 13: 9780553352320

Published by Bantam Books, New York, 1991

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(xx) 692 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Emmett Till 1955: I Want the Whole World to See; The Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955 - 1956: Like a Revival Starting; The Little Rock Crisis 1957 - 1958: I Had Cracked the Wall; Student Sit-in in Nashville 1960: A Badge of Honor; Freedom Rides 1961: Sticks and Bricks; Albany Georgia 1961 - 1962: The Mother Lode; James Meredith Enters Ole Miss 1962: Things Would Never Be the Same; Birmingham 1963: Something Has Got to Change; Organizing in Mississippi 1961 - 1963: The Reality of What We Were Doing Hit Me; The March on Washington 1963: They Voted with Their Fee; The Sixteenth Street Church Bombing 1963: You Realized How Intense the Opposition Was; Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964: Representation and the Right to Participate; Selma 1965: Troopers Advance; Malcolm X 1925 - 1965: Our Own Black Shining Prince; The Lowndes County Freedom Organization 1965 - 1966: Vote for the Panther Then Go Home; The Meredith March 1966: Hit Them Now; Chicago 1966: Chicago Was a Symbol; Muhammad Ali 1964 - 1967: I Am the Greatest; King and Vietnam 1965 - 1967: His Philosophy Made It Impossible Not to Take a Stand; Birth of the Black Panthers 1966 - 1967: We Wanted Control; Detroit 1967: Inside of Most Black People There Was a Time Bomb; The Election of Carl Stokes 1967: We Had to Be Organized; Howard University 1967 - 1968: You Saw the Silhouette of Her Afro; King's Last Crusade 1967 - 1968: We've Got Some Difficult Days Ahead; Resurrection City 1968: The End of a Major Battle; Ocean Hill - Brownsville 1967 - 1968: Everything Became More Political; The Black Panthers 1968 - 1969: How Serious and Deadly the Game; Attica and Prisoners' Rights 1971: There's Always Time to Die; The Gary Convention 1972: Unity Without Uniformity; Busing in Boston 1974 - 1976: As if Some Alien Was Coming into the School; and Atlanta and Affirmative Action 1973 - 1980: The Politics of Inclusion; followed by: Epilogue: From Miami to America's Future; and an index. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: VOICES OF FREEDOM - An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s
• Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0553352326
• ISBN 13: 9780553352320
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Later Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • General Interest
  • History - United States

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Synopsis

“A vast choral pageant that recounts the momentous work of the civil rights struggle.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
A monumental volume drawing upon nearly one thousand interviews with civil rights activists, politicians, reporters, Justice Department officials, and others, weaving a fascinating narrative of the civil rights movement told by the people who lived it
 
Join brave and terrified youngsters walking through a jeering mob and up the steps of Central High School in Little Rock. Listen to the vivid voices of the ordinary people who manned the barricades, the laborers, the students, the housewives without whom there would have been no civil rights movements at all.
 
In this remarkable oral history, Henry Hampton, creator and executive producer of the acclaimed PBS series Eyes on the Prize, and Steve Fayer, series writer, bring to life the country’s great struggle for civil rights as no conventional narrative can. You will hear the voices of those who defied the blackjacks, who went to jail, who witnessed and policed the movement; of those who stood for and against it—voices from the heart of America.

About the Author

Henry Hampton, who died in 1998, was the creator and executive producer of Eyes on the Prize, one of more than 40 film projects he developed with his company Blackside, Inc., the largest African-American-owned film production company of its time. Hampton became one of the world's most respected documentary filmmakers as he chronicled the 20th century's great political and social movements, focusing on the lives of the poor and disenfranchised.

Steve Fayer was the series writer for Eyes on the Prize.