Birmingham foot soldiers
Subtitle: voices from the civil rights movement
By: Nick Patterson
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781626192201
Subjects: African Americans; Civil rights; History; African American civil rights workers; Biography; Civil rights workers; Civil rights movements; Race relations
Description: Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Andrew Young and Fred Shuttlesworth are iconic names associated with the Birmingham campaign of the civil rights movement. But credit is also due to many local residents who risked their lives for the cause. In this book, the author interviews some of these people and recounts the struggle and adversity they overcame.--From back cover.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Fred Shuttlesworth; title: Ira Sims; title: Floretta Scruggs Tyson; title: Gloria Washington Lewis Randall; title: Carol Jackson Walton; title: Myrna Carter Jackson; title: Carolyn Walker Williams; title: Clifton Casey; title: Annie Cunningham Sewell; title: Gerald Wren; title: Raymond Goolsby; title: Terry Collins; title: Charles Avery; title: Rose Marie Cook; title: Leroy Stover.