My soul looks back in wonder
Subtitle: voices of the civil rights experience
By: Juan Williams ; foreword David Halberstam ; afterword Marian Wright Edelman.
Publisher: AARP/Sterling
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781402714153
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Minorities -- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Discrimination -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography; Social reformers -- United States -- Biography; Political activists -- United States -- Biography; United States -- Race relations; United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Genres: Biography.
Description: More than 30 people tell personal stories about the nonviolent struggle for civil rights, then and now, not only the leaders but also ordinary citizens who bear witness to "transforming moments" when they suddenly found the courage to try to change things.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / David Halberstam; title: Introduction : The soul of change; title: Section one : The weight.; title: I am a man / Jesse Epps; title: Dream is a good place to start / Endesha Holland; title: King of the blues / B.B. King; title: Twisted steel and sex appeal / Sputnik Monroe; title: Gentleman of the press / Vernon Jarrett; title: Skin dive / Dr. Sammy Lee; title: American Gandhi / James Lawson; title: The birth of Elvis / Jim Dickinson; title: The jump-off point / Jerome Smith; title: "Like little tortures each day" / Carol Swann-Daniels; title: Section two : We shall not be moved.; title: A blinding flash opened our eyes / Carolyn McKinstry; title: Justice never sleeps / William Baxley; title: Veil of amnesia / Diane McWhorter; title: Heaven can wait / Joseph Lowery; title: Cracking the system / Raylawni Branch; title: Louisiana moon / Maurice Landrieu; title: Wake up, Washington! / Rachelle Horowitz; title: The brutal truth / Karl Fleming; title: Mother courage / Carolyn Goodman; title: Hour of power / Alvin Poussaint; title: Love story in black and white / Constancia Romilly; title: Hard-wired for freedom / Heather Booth; title: Help from on high / Curtis Graves; title: At history's elbow / Samuel Kyles; title: Section three : The wings of the future.; title: Founding sisters / Susan Brownmiller; title: Unprincipled principal / Jose Angel Gutierrez; title: Shooting for big fish / Diane Wilson; title: Wheels of progress / Michelle Steger; title: Threads in the civil rights quilt / Barney Frank; title: Rewriting the lies / Suzan Harjo; title: The Latino underground railroad / John Fife; title: A more perfect union / Tawanda Murray; title: A living hope / Eugene Rivers; title: Afterword / Marion Wright Edelman