Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement write by Townsend Davis. This book was released on 1999-02-17. Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Weary Feet, Rested Souls is a valuable and beautiful road map to a landscape we must not forget."—Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund Thirty years after the Civil Rights Movement transformed America, Weary Feet, Rested Souls brings the landscape of this compelling period of history back to life. Logging 30,000 miles of research and more than 100 hours of interviews with Civil Rights veterans, Townsend Davis has written both a history of the struggle and an indispensable traveler's guidebook to Civil Rights in the Deep South. Ranging from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s childhood neighborhood to Philadelphia, Mississippi, where three Civil Rights workers were murdered, to Selma and Birmingham and scores of other sites, Weary Feet, Rested Souls is a uniquely inspiring and deeply commemorative guide to the Movement and its heroes.
A Traveler's Guide to the Civil Rights Movement
A Traveler's Guide to the Civil Rights Movement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Traveler's Guide to the Civil Rights Movement write by Jim Carrier. This book was released on 2004. A Traveler's Guide to the Civil Rights Movement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides state-by-state listings of the museums, monuments, and historic landmarks of the South that played a role in the civil rights movement.
The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory
The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory write by Renee Christine Romano. This book was released on 2006. The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The movement for civil rights in America peaked in the 1950s and 1960s; however, a closely related struggle, this time over the movement's legacy, has been heatedly engaged over the past two decades. How the civil rights movement is currently being remembered in American politics and culture--and why it matters--is the common theme of the thirteen essays in this unprecedented collection. Memories of the movement are being created and maintained--in ways and for purposes we sometimes only vaguely perceive--through memorials, art exhibits, community celebrations, and even street names. At least fifteen civil rights movement museums have opened since 1990; Mississippi Burning, Four Little Girls, and The Long Walk Home only begin to suggest the range of film and television dramatizations of pivotal events; corporations increasingly employ movement images to sell fast food, telephones, and more; and groups from Christian conservatives to gay rights activists have claimed the civil rights mantle. Contests over the movement's meaning are a crucial part of the continuing fight against racism and inequality. These writings look at how civil rights memories become established as fact through museum exhibits, street naming, and courtroom decisions; how our visual culture transmits the memory of the movement; how certain aspects of the movement have come to be ignored in its "official" narrative; and how other political struggles have appropriated the memory of the movement. Here is a book for anyone interested in how we collectively recall, claim, understand, and represent the past.
Shelter in a Time of Storm
Shelter in a Time of Storm - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shelter in a Time of Storm write by Jelani M. Favors. This book was released on 2019-02-08. Shelter in a Time of Storm available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 2020 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award 2020 Lillian Smith Book Award Finalist, 2020 Pauli Murray Book Prize For generations, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been essential institutions for the African American community. Their nurturing environments not only provided educational advancement but also catalyzed the Black freedom struggle, forever altering the political destiny of the United States. In this book, Jelani M. Favors offers a history of HBCUs from the 1837 founding of Cheyney State University to the present, told through the lens of how they fostered student activism. Favors chronicles the development and significance of HBCUs through stories from institutions such as Cheyney State University, Tougaloo College, Bennett College, Alabama State University, Jackson State University, Southern University, and North Carolina A&T. He demonstrates how HBCUs became a refuge during the oppression of the Jim Crow era and illustrates the central role their campus communities played during the civil rights and Black Power movements. Throughout this definitive history of how HBCUs became a vital seedbed for politicians, community leaders, reformers, and activists, Favors emphasizes what he calls an unwritten "second curriculum" at HBCUs, one that offered students a grounding in idealism, racial consciousness, and cultural nationalism.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Montgomery Bus Boycott write by Cheryl Phibbs. This book was released on 2009-07-23. The Montgomery Bus Boycott available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A revealing, comprehensive, and detailed account focusing on the people and personalities behind the Montgomery, Alabama, Bus Boycott in 1955–1956, which became the catalyst for a national civil rights movement. The Montgomery Bus Boycott: A History and Reference Guide offers a comprehensive account of a critical turning point in American history. It offers a richly detailed chronological trip through post-World War II Southern society to the early 1960s, then focuses on the day-to-day frustrations, challenges, and victories of the people behind the protest that inspired a nationwide movement. The Montgomery Bus Boycott fills a gap in available resources with its comprehensive portrait of mid-1950s Montgomery—the mainly black, uneducated female protestors, activist Rosa Parks, Dr. King, and the white society desperate to keep intact the only culture they understood. Firsthand news reports, editorials, quotes, eyewitness accounts, and behind-the-scenes stories of political maneuvering help readers experience this dramatic—and still reverberating—victory over oppression.
