Weary Feet - Rested Souls A Guided History Through the Civil Rights Movement

Name: Weary Feet - Rested Souls A Guided History Through the Civil Rights Movement
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ISBN: 9780393045925

ISBN-10: 0393045927

ISBN-13: 9780393045925

Edition: 1998

Authors: Townsend Davis

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List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Townsend Davis is a writer and lawyer living in New York City. His articles have appeared in the New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, and the Charlotte Observer.



Common Acronyms


Introduction


Acknowledgments


Alabama


Montgomery: The Bus Boycott and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.


Birmingham: From "Bombingham" to Project C


Selma: Bloody Sunday and the March to Montgomery


Perry County: The Martyrdom of Jimmie Lee Jackson


Lowndes County: Birth of the Black Panther


Arkansas


Little Rock: Federal Troops Escort the Little Rock Nine


Georgia


Atlanta: Leadership from Sweet Auburn to West Hunter


Albany: Putting the Plantation to the Test


Savannah: Local Movement by the Sea


Mississippi


General: Transformation of the Magnolia State


Jackson: Capital in the Eye of the Storm


McComb: Moses Leads the First Mass Voting Drive


Oxford: Jeeps on the Campus of Ole Miss


The Delta: Outposts in the Land of the Lost


Greenwood: Hard Lessons in the Delta


Meridian: The Final Days of Chaney and Schwerner


Philadelphia: A Search Leads to an Earthen Dam


Hattiesburg: Vernon Dahmer's Courageous Stand


North Carolina


Greensboro: more than a Cup of Coffee


Raleigh: The Rise and Fall of SNCC


South Carolina


Charleston/Johns Island: The Citizenship Schools


Orangeburg: The Other Kent State


Tennessee


New Market: Movement Haven in the Mountains


Nashville: The University of Nonviolence


Memphis: A Strike for Dignity - Assassination


Chronology


Civil Rights Laws


Appendix: Map Index


Appendix: The Historical Sites


Endnotes


Selected Sources


Index