From Southern Wrongs To Civil Rights
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From Southern Wrongs To Civil Rights
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Author : Sara Mitchell Parsons
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2009-02
From Southern Wrongs To Civil Rights written by Sara Mitchell Parsons and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This first-hand account tells the story of turbulent civil rights era Atlanta through the eyes of a white upper-class woman who became an outspoken advocate for integration and racial equality As a privileged white woman who grew up in segregated Atlanta, Sara Mitchell Parsons was an unlikely candidate to become a civil rights agitator. After all, her only contacts with blacks were with those who helped raise her and those who later helped raise her children. As a young woman, she followed the conventional path expected of her, becoming the dutiful wife of a conservative husband, going to the country club, and playing bridge. But unlike many of her peers, Parsons harbored an increasing uneasiness about racial segregation. In a memoir that includes candid diary excerpts, Parsons chronicles her moral awakening. With little support from her husband, she runs for the Atlanta Board of Education on a quietly integrationist platform and, once elected, becomes increasingly outspoken about inequitable school conditions and the slow pace of integration. Her activities bring her into contact with such civil rights leaders as Martin Luther King, Jr., and his wife, Coretta Scott King. For a time, she leads a dual existence, sometimes traveling the great psychic distance from an NAACP meeting on Auburn Avenue to an all-white party in upscale Buckhead. She eventually drops her ladies' clubs, and her deepening involvement in the civil rights movement costs Parsons many friends as well as her first marriage.
From Southern Wrongs To Civil Rights The Memoir Of White Civil Rights Activist
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
From Southern Wrongs To Civil Rights The Memoir Of White Civil Rights Activist written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
Civil Rights And Wrongs
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Author : Harry S. Ashmore
language : en
Publisher: Pantheon
Release Date : 1994
Civil Rights And Wrongs written by Harry S. Ashmore and has been published by Pantheon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
"A Cornelia & Michael Bessie Book - Pantheon Books". Index.
A History Of The Civil Rights Movement
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Author : M. LaVora Perry
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-09-02
A History Of The Civil Rights Movement written by M. LaVora Perry and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-02 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
"The arc of the moral universe is long," Martin Luther King Jr. once observed, "but it bends toward justice." In this book, you'll read about many courageous people—including Dr. King himself—who worked for justice during the long struggle for African-American civil rights.
Southern Journey
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Author : Tom Dent
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Southern Journey written by Tom Dent and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
An exploration of the significant changes resulting from the efforts of the 1960s civil rights movement. In 1991, Tom Dent visited the places in the American South where the protesters took a stand for equality. His interviews with everyday citizens recount their personal experiences.
The Role Of Ideas In The Civil Rights South
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date :
The Role Of Ideas In The Civil Rights South written by and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The Story Of Civil Rights
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Author : Wil Mara
language : en
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Release Date : 2018-01-04
The Story Of Civil Rights written by Wil Mara and has been published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-04 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Read the stories of the amazing men and women who fought for equality during the US Civil Rights Movement, including Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington, and Rosa Parks and the famous Montgomery Bus Boycott. Learn all about civil rights-what they are, and why they're important. This book covers the history of civil rights in the US, including slavery and the abolition of slavery, and segregation. It discusses the momentous US Civil Rights Movement, from sit-ins and protests, to marches and inspirational speeches, to legislation for equality. There's also information about modern-day issues, and how children can use their voices to become activists in their own communities. Perfect for 7-9 year olds starting to read alone, Level 3 Readers include in-depth information presented through more complex sentence structure with increasing amount of text to expand the reader's general knowledge and confidence in reading. Additional information spreads are full of extra facts, developing the topics through a range of nonfiction presentation styles, such as quotes, lists, and statistics.
Deep South Dispatch
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Author : John N. Herbers
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2018-04-12
Deep South Dispatch written by John N. Herbers and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Former New York Times correspondent John N. Herbers (1923-2017), who covered the civil rights movement for more than a decade, has produced Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist, a compelling story of national and historical significance. Born in the South during a time of entrenched racial segregation, Herbers witnessed a succession of landmark civil rights uprisings that rocked the country, the world, and his own conscience. Herbers's retrospective is a timely and critical illumination on America's current racial dilemmas and ongoing quest for justice. Herbers's reporting began in 1951, when he covered the brutal execution of Willie McGee, a black man convicted for the rape of a white housewife, and the 1955 trial for the murder of Emmett Till, a black teenager killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman. With immediacy and first-hand detail, Herbers describes the assassination of John F. Kennedy; the death of four black girls in the Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing; extensive travels and interviews with Martin Luther King Jr.; Ku Klux Klan cross-burning rallies and private meetings; the Freedom Summer murders in Philadelphia, Mississippi; and marches and riots in St. Augustine, Florida, and Selma, Alabama, that led to passage of national civil rights legislation. This account is also a personal journey as Herbers witnessed the movement with the conflicted eyes of a man dedicated to his southern heritage but who also rejected the prescribed laws and mores of a prejudiced society. His story provides a complex understanding of how the southern status quo, in which the white establishment benefited at the expense of African Americans, was transformed by a national outcry for justice.
Step Johnson
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Author : John A. Chambers
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2008-12
Step Johnson written by John A. Chambers and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12 with Fiction categories.
In June of 1936, Step Johnson of Savannah, Georgia, a brilliant black odd-jobs man, part-time thug, full-time womanizer, is a cynical rebel with numerous causes, usually negative. His sweet and unselfish girlfriend, twenty-year-old Gancy Miller, "deserts" him to care for her ill sister, Sweet Annie, in Lourdes, called Lordies, in the next state. Angry as well as desolate, he hitchhikes after her. Gancy, rebounded, is now involved with Lonnie Milsaps, a white Lourdes barber and gun-dealing entrepreneur whose twin fixations are hiding his misalliance and frantically chasing a franchise for the sensational new Royal Crown Colas. Step's nightmarish pilgrim's progress through emotional and physical abuse inspires soul searching that is long overdue. Persecution and introspection continue in Lordies, where he's blackjacked for deliberately taking a white bus seat. He also acquires an unwarranted and undesired, yet unshakable, reputation for miracle-working. Lordies' black establishment resents Step as a rival. White folk loathe him as an agitator, especially the power hungry chief of police, Hershel Laycock. Step becomes the reluctant, yet committed, leader of a tragically isolated civil rights awakening. Its unexpected climax is both deadly and inspiring.
Civil Rights And Social Wrongs
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Author : John Higham
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11-01
Civil Rights And Social Wrongs written by John Higham and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-01 with Social Science categories.