My Soul Is Rested
Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered
ISBN 9780140067538 | 496 pages | 29 Sep 1983 | Penguin | 5.15 x 7.79in | 18 - AND UP
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The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence. From the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968, these are the peeople who fought the epic battle: Rosa Parks, Andrew Young, Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams, Fannie Lou Hamer, and others, both black and white, who participated in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, voter drives, and campaigns for school and university integration.
Here, too, are voices from the "Down-Home Resistance" that supported George Wallace, Bull Connor, and the "traditions" of the Old South—voices that conjure up the frightening terrain on which the battle was fought. My Soul is Rested is a powerful document of social and political history, as well as a magnificent tribute to those who made history happen.
Acknowledgments Book One: I. The Beginning Interlude: John Lewis II. Black Surprise III: Freedom Riders Interlude: Ruby Hurley IV: Alabama
Part Two: Selma Interlude: Timothy Jenkins and Lonnie King V. Mississippi Interlude: Dick Gregory Book Two: I: The Down-Home Resistance II. Higher Education III. Lawyers and Lawmen IV. Reporters Interlude V. Assorted Rebels VI. Black Camelot Interlude Recessional
"Deeply affecting and searingly vivid"
"Remarkable … the realities of our social history are described in a kind of magnificent humaneness." |
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