The Shadow Of Selma
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The Shadow Of Selma
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Author : Joe Street
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2021-02-04
The Shadow Of Selma written by Joe Street and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-04 with History categories.
The Shadow of Selma evaluates the 1965 civil rights campaign in Selma, Alabama, the historical memory of the campaign’s marches, and the continuing relevance of and challenges to the Voting Rights Act. The contributors present Selma not just as a keystone event but, much like Ferguson today, as a transformative place: a supposedly unimportant location that became the focal point of epochal historical events. By shifting the focus from leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. to the thousands of unheralded people who crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge—and the networks that undergirded and opposed them—this innovative volume considers the campaign’s long-term impact and its place in history. The volume recalls the historical currents that surrounded Selma, discussing grassroots activism, the role of President Lyndon B. Johnson during the struggle for the Voting Rights Act, and the political reaction to Selma at home and abroad. Using Ava DuVernay's 2014 Hollywood film as a stepping stone, the editors bring together various essays that address the ways media—from television and newspaper coverage to "race beat" journalism—represented and reconfigured Selma. The contributors underline the power of misrepresentation in shaping popular memory and in fueling a redemptive narrative that glosses over ongoing racial problems. Finally, the volume traces the fifty-year legacy of the Voting Rights Act. It reveals the many subtle and overt methods by which opponents of racial equality attempted to undo the act’s provisions, with a particular focus on the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision that eliminated sections of the act designed to prevent discrimination. Taken together, the essays urge readers not to be blind to forms of discrimination and injustice that continue to shape inequalities in the United States. They remind us that while today's obstacles to racial equality may look different from a literacy test or a grimfaced Alabama state trooper, they are no less real. Contributors: Alma Jean Billingslea Brown | Ben Houston | Peter Ling | Mark McLay | Tony Badger | Clive Webb | Aniko Bodroghkozy | Mark Walmsley | George Lewis | Megan Hunt | Devin Fergus | Barbara Harris Combs | Lynn Mie Itagaki
In The Shadow Of Selma
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Author : Cynthia Griggs Fleming
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2004-02-16
In The Shadow Of Selma written by Cynthia Griggs Fleming and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-16 with History categories.
On March 7, 1965, voting rights demonstrators were brutally beaten as they crossed the Edmund Petis bridge in Selma, Alabama. One of the most-publicized incidents of the civil rights campaign, images from that day have been seared into the nation's consciousness. Yet little has been written about the civil rights events in the surrounding counties, the vast sections of the rural south. Cynthia Griggs Fleming addresses this gap by bringing to light the struggle for equality of the citizens of Wilcox County, Alabama. Although right next door to Selma, their story has been largely ignored. Through the eyes of the residents of the county, Fleming relates a struggle punctuated by cowardice and courage, audacity and timidity, fear and foolishness. And, in the end, the entrenched power structure refused to yield and the county remains segregated to this day. Personal and compelling, In the Shadow of Selma is essential reading for everyone interested in the continuing struggle for civil rights in the United States.
In The Shadow Of Rainbows
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Author : Selma Martin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-07-15
In The Shadow Of Rainbows written by Selma Martin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-15 with categories.
In this dazzling debut poetry collection of over 60 carefully selected poems, author Selma Martin points the way to the beauty in the everyday, the shadow of the rainbow, and the silver lining at the edge of every cloud. Favouring lyrical forms, and revelling in rhymes and musical language, the individual poems in this collection harmonise together in symphonic splendour to form an enlightening and delightful whole.
Selma
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Author : Alston Fitts
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2016
Selma written by Alston Fitts 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 2016 with History categories.
In 1989, Alston Fitts published a brief history of the city of Selma, Alabama, from its founding through the aftermath of the civil rights movement. Selma: A Bicentennial History is a greatly revised and expanded version of Fitts’s history of the city, replete with a wealth of new, never-before-published illustrations, which further develops a number of significant events, corrects critical errors, and, most importantly, incorporates many new stories and materials that document Selma’s establishment, growth, and development. Comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and nonpartisan, Fitts’s pleasantly accessible history addresses every major issue, movement, and trend from the city’s settlement in 1815 to the end of the twentieth century. Its commerce, institutions, governance, as well as its evolving racial, religious, and class composition are all treated with candor and depth. Selma’s transformative role within the state and the nation is fully explored, and most notable is a nuanced and complex discussion of race relations from the rise of the civil rights era to modern times. Historians, scholars, and Alabamians will find great use for this updated and fully developed exploration of Selma’s rich, complex, and significant history.
Selma S Bloody Sunday
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Author : Robert A. Pratt
language : en
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Release Date : 2017-01-31
Selma S Bloody Sunday written by Robert A. Pratt and has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-31 with History categories.
Drawing on archival materials, secondary sources, and eyewitness accounts of the brave men and women who marched, this gripping account offers a brief and nuanced narrative of this critical phase of the black freedom struggle.
Down A Long Cotton Row And The Shadows Of Love
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Author : Franklin David Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2003-11-18
Down A Long Cotton Row And The Shadows Of Love written by Franklin David Richardson and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-18 with Fiction categories.
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Remembering Selma
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Author : Roy W. Hall
language : en
Publisher: Publishamerica Incorporated
Release Date : 2003-10-06
Remembering Selma written by Roy W. Hall and has been published by Publishamerica Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is a book about growing up in the last years (1950's-1960's) of the old South, and in the shadow of Birmingham, Alabama. Many of the people, events, and circumstances of those years made Alabama, the Heart of Dixie, and the entire South the center of attention for the nation and for the world. While big newsworthy events were occurring that eventually led to the "end" of the old South, smaller events were occurring in the lives of ordinary people that also resulted in profound change. This book chronicles such events in the life of the author. His life, like that of most Southerners of his time, unfolded in light of three basic and daily realities: race, religion, and roots (family). Through stories like "Fish Tail and Her Bag," "Hamburger Memories," and "Remembering Selma," the author takes the reader on a journey back to a time that merits never being forgotten.
Bending Toward Justice
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Author : Gary May
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-04-09
Bending Toward Justice written by Gary May and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-09 with History categories.
When the Fifteenth Amendment of 1870 granted African Americans the right to vote, it seemed as if a new era of political equality was at hand. Before long, however, white segregationists across the South counterattacked, driving their black countrymen from the polls through a combination of sheer terror and insidious devices such as complex literacy tests and expensive poll taxes. Most African Americans would remain voiceless for nearly a century more, citizens in name only until the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act secured their access to the ballot. In Bending Toward Justice, celebrated historian Gary May describes how black voters overcame centuries of bigotry to secure and preserve one of their most important rights as American citizens. The struggle that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act was long and torturous, and only succeeded because of the courageous work of local freedom fighters and national civil rights leaders -- as well as, ironically, the opposition of Southern segregationists and law enforcement officials, who won public sympathy for the voting rights movement by brutally attacking peaceful demonstrators. But while the Voting Rights Act represented an unqualified victory over such forces of hate, May explains that its achievements remain in jeopardy. Many argue that the 2008 election of President Barack Obama rendered the act obsolete, yet recent years have seen renewed efforts to curb voting rights and deny minorities the act's hard-won protections. Legal challenges to key sections of the act may soon lead the Supreme Court to declare those protections unconstitutional. A vivid, fast-paced history of this landmark piece of civil rights legislation, Bending Toward Justice offers a dramatic, timely account of the struggle that finally won African Americans the ballot -- although, as May shows, the fight for voting rights is by no means over.
Bloody Lowndes
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Author : Hasan Kwame Jeffries
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2010-08-02
Bloody Lowndes written by Hasan Kwame Jeffries and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-02 with History categories.
The treatment of eating disorders remains controversial, protracted, and often unsuccessful. Therapists face a number of impediments to the optimal care fo their patients, from transference to difficulties in dealing with the patient's family. Treating Eating Disorders addresses the pressure and responsibility faced by practicing therapists in the treatment of eating disorders. Legal, ethical, and interpersonal issues involving compulsory treatment, food refusal and forced feeding, managed care, treatment facilities, terminal care, and how the gender of the therapist affects treatment figure centrally in this invaluable navigational guide.
Junior High School One Act Comedies
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Author : Ruth Kelsey
language : en
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
Release Date : 1939
Junior High School One Act Comedies written by Ruth Kelsey and has been published by Dramatic Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with Amateur plays categories.