Easy Burden The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America

Name: Easy Burden The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America
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ISBN: 9781602580732

ISBN-10: 1602580731

ISBN-13: 9781602580732

Edition: 2008

Authors: Andrew Young, Quincy Jones

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Andrew Young is one of the most important figures of the U.S. civil rights movement and one of America's best-known African American leaders. Working closely with Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, he endured beatings and arrests while participating in seminal civil rights campaigns. In 1964, he became Executive Director of the SCLC, serving with King during a time of great accomplishment and turmoil. In describing his life through his election to Congress in 1972, this memoir provides revelatory, riveting reading. Young's analysis of the connection between racism, poverty, and a militarized economy will resonate with particular relevance for readers…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Publication date: 3/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 582
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.35" tall
Weight: 1.870
Language: English

Quincy Jones's most recent major award is the Thurgood Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; his most recent album release is From Q with Love. He lives in Los Angeles, California.



Prologue: We Have Come So Far



1932-1961



Don't Get Mad, Get Smart



Among the Talented Tenth



Somebody's Calling My Name



Jean



Serving Bethany



The Establishment at Prayer



Look Away Dixie



1961-1968



The Singing Movement



The Lord Is with This Movement



Redeeming the Soul of America



Walking Through the Valley



International Acclaim, Domestic Harassment



Give Us the Ballot



Going to Chicago



War and Poverty



Let Us Slay the Dreamer



1968-1972



City of Hope



What Shall Become of His Dream


Afterword: We Still Have a Long Way to Go


Acknowledgments


Index