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Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement

Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement

Ellison, Ralph
Meacham, Jon
Angelou, Maya

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryBlack American StudiesSocial Movements

ISBN10: 037575881X
ISBN13: 9780375758812
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Jan 7 2003
Pages: 576
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.44 Depth: 9.18
Language: English
An unprecedented portrait of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, told through voices that resonate with passion and strength--including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and John Lewis

Jon Meacham . . . has done about the best job of anthologizing the movement that I've ever seen.--Tom Wicker, Mother Jones

Editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham has chosen pieces by journalists, novelists, historians, and artists, bringing together a wide range of perspectives and experiences. The result is a literary anthology of important and artful interpretations of the movement's spirit and struggle.

Maya Angelou takes us on a poignant journey back to her childhood in the Arkansas of the 1930s. On the front page of The New York Times, James Reston marks the movement's apex as he describes what it was like to watch Martin Luther King, Jr., deliver his heralded I Have a Dream speech in real time. Alice Walker takes up the movement's progress a decade later in her article Choosing to Stay at Home: Ten Years After the March on Washington. And John Lewis chronicles the unimaginable courage of the ordinary African Americans who challenged the prevailing order, paid for it in blood and tears, and justly triumphed.

Voices in Our Blood is a compelling look at the movement as it actually happened, from the days leading up to World War II to the anxieties and ambiguities of this new century. The story of race in America is a never-ending one, and Voices in Our Blood tells us how we got this far--and how far we still have to go to reach the Promised Land.

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