Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement An Anthology

Name: Short Stories of the Civil Rights Movement An Anthology
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ISBN: 9780820328515

ISBN-10: 0820328510

ISBN-13: 9780820328515

Edition: 2006

Authors: Margaret Earley Whitt

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During the civil rights era, masses of people marched in the streets, boycotted stores, and registered to vote. Others challenged racism in ways more solitary but no less life changing. These twenty-three stories give a voice to the nameless, ordinary citizens without whom the movement would have failed. From bloody melees at public lunch counters to anxious musings at the family dinner table, the diverse experiences depicted in this anthology make the civil rights movement as real and immediate as the best histories and memoirs. Each story focuses on a particular, sometimes private, moment in the historic struggle for social justice in America. Events have a permanent effect on characters,…

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 11/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


School Desegregation


See What Tomorrow Brings (1968)



The First Day of School (1958)



Neighbors (1966)



Spring Is Now (1968)



Sit-ins


The Beginning of Violence (1985)



The Welcome Table (1996)



Food That Pleases, Food to Take Home (1995)



Direct Action (1963)



Doris Is Coming (2003)



Marches and Demonstrations


Negro Progress (1994)



The Marchers (1979)



Moonshot (1989)



Selma (1972)



Marching through Boston (1966)



Acts of Violence


The Convert (1963)



Where Is the Voice Coming From? (1963)



Liars Don't Qualify (1961)



Advancing Luna-and Ida B. Wells (1977)



Means and Ends (1985)



Going to Meet the Man (1965)



Retrospective


Flora Devine (1995)



Paying My Dues (1996)



To My Young Husband (2000)



Brief Chronology of the Civil Rights Movement


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