Free At Last?: the Civil Rights Movement and the People Who Made It
Language: English
Published by Little, Brown, Boston, 1991
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Octavo in grey boards and white illustrated jacket protected in mylar; 711 pages, [16] pages of plates: illus.; 24 cm.; jacket is lightly edgeworn with some small chips and closed tears along the edges and corners; boards are lightly bumped at the spine ends; o/w pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and creases; bindind is tight and square; a gently used copy; inscribed by author on half-title page. In English. Contents: pt. 1. A way of life -- The cost of oppression -- Race, creed, color, or national origin -- The South's unique liability -- pt. 2. A movement is born -- The revolution got out of hand -- Old Black women walking in the sun -- Pilgrims -- pt. 3. Resistance: the separate but not equal -- Th power of the ballot box -- The desire to survive politically -- Faith is not enough -- Nothing personal, you understand -- A subtle, gradual tightening down -- pt. 4. Soul force -- Hate and history coming together -- This was our time -- A glorious opportunity -- A handle that we could use -- pt. 5. Confrontation -- An absolutely awful day in Alabama -- A limit to liberalism -- Where's your body? -- In the bowels of the beast -- pt. 6. Albany, Oxford, and Birmingham -- A willingness to suffer -- The land of never -- You relied on local help -- A failed success -- A mission and a nervous stomach -- Not another Oxford -- Mississippi: caught up in the tradition -- Peace in the valley -- So nice to have you in Birmingham -- pt. 7. Other frontiers -- The march -- You always have to worry -- The education of Sharon Burger -- No plan, no program -- pt. 8. Victory -- Segregation is broken -- The end of the terror -- A chronology of significant movement events; Abstract: "Describes the struggle of the men and women, black and white, who dedicated themselves to breaking segregation in America." Near fine copy in very good jacket. in very good dust-jacket First edition, first printing (full number line).…
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- Title
- Free At Last?: the Civil Rights Movement and the People Who Made It
- Author
- Powledge, Fred
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, Boston
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0316716324
- ISBN 13
- 9780316716321
- Edition
- 1st Edition
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Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
America's civil rights movement had heroes beyond Martin Luther King, owed little to federal help, and was hardly a forward march to glory from Montgomery to Selma. These are themes of Powledge, whose narrative sketch of the 1950s and 1960s, years he saw as a newspaperman, loosely cements together more than 50 interviews. A surprising range of persons speak: Julian Bond, James Farmer, and lesser-known civil rights veterans; an FBI agent; Alabama Governor John Patterson; Albany, Georgia, Police Chief Laurie Pritchett, other segregationists. "Trying something and seeing what worked and what didn't work"--such was the nature of countless heroic acts across the South, which added up to the movement portrayed with great immediacy by Powledge. His book is as rich as Henry Hampton's Voices of Freedom ( LJ 2/15/90). Highly recommended for public and college libraries; of interest to scholars, too. Photos and index not seen.
- Robert F. Nardini, N. Chichester, N.H.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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