VOICES OF FREEDOM - An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s
Language: English
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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- Title
- VOICES OF FREEDOM - An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s
- Author
- Hampton, Henry; Fayer, Steve (project notes by Robert Lavelle)
- Publisher
- Bantam Books, New York
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Very Good
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0553352326
- ISBN 13
- 9780553352320
- Edition
- Later Printing.
- Seller catalogs
- General Interest, History - United States
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.
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About the Author
Steve Fayer was the series writer for Eyes on the Prize.
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