Voices of freedom : an oral history of the civil rights movement from the 1950s through the 1980s /
Eyewitness accounts of three decades of civil rights history.
| Други автори: | Hampton, Henry, 1940-1998., Fayer, Steve, 1935-, Flynn, Sarah, 1950- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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New York :
Bantam Books,
c1990.
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Съдържание:
- Emmett Till, 1955: "I wanted the whole world to see"
- Montgomery bus boycott, 1955-1956: "Like a revival starting"
- Little Rock crisis, 1957-1958: "I had cracked the wall"
- Student sit-ins in Nashville, 1960: "Badge of honor"
- Freedom rides, 1961: "Sticks and bricks"
- Albany, Georgia, 1961-1962: "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"
- March on Washington, 1963: "They voted with their feet"
- 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!"
- Lowndes County Freedom Organization, 1965-1966: "Vote for the Panther, then go home"
- 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 most black people there was a time bomb"
- Election of Carl Stokes: "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"
- Black Panthers, 1968-1969: "How serious and deadly the game"
- Attica and prisoners' rights, 1971: "There's always time to die"
- Gary convention, 1972: "Unity without uniformity"
- Busing in Boston, 1974-1976: "As if some alien was coming into the school"
- Atlanta and affirmative action, 1973-1980: "Politics of inclusion"
- Epilogue: From Miami to America's future.