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Voices of freedom

an oral history of the civil rights movement from the 1950s through the 1980s

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An edition of Voices of freedom (1991)

Voices of freedom

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Bantam Books
Language
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Pages
692

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Table of Contents

"I wanted the whole world to see" / Emmett Till, 1955
Montgomery bus boycott, 1955-1956: "Like a revival starting"
Little Rock crisis, 1957-1958: "I had cracked the wall"
Student sit-ins in Nashville, 1960: "Badge of honor"
Freedom rides, 1961: "Sticks and bricks"
Albany, Georgia, 1961-1962: "Mother lode"
James Meredith enters Ole Miss, 1962: "Things would never be the same"
Birmingham, 1963: "Something has got to change"
Organizing in Mississippi, 1961-1963: "The reality of what we were doing hit me"
March on Washington, 1963: "They voted with their feet"
Sixteenth Street Church bombing, 1963: "You realized how intense the opposition was"
Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964: "Representation and the right to participate"
Selma, 1965: "Troopers, advance"
Malcolm X (1925-1965): "Our own black shining prince!"
Lowndes County Freedom Organization, 1965-1966: "Vote for the Panther, then go home"
Meredith march, 1966: "Hit them now"
Chicago, 1966: "Chicago was a symbol"
Muhammad Ali, 1964-1967: "I am the greatest"
King and Vietnam, 1965-1967: "His philosophy made it impossible not to take a stand"
Birth of the Black Panthers, 1966-1967: "We wanted control"
Detroit, 1967: "Inside most black people there was a time bomb"
Election of Carl Stokes: "We had to be organized"
Howard University, 1967-1968: "You saw the silhouette of her Afro"
King's last crusade: "We've got some difficult days ahead"
Resurrection City, 1968: "The end of a major battle"
Ocean Hill-Brownsville, 1967-1968: "Everything became more political"
Black Panthers, 1968-1969: "How serious and deadly the game"
Attica and prisoners' rights, 1971: "There's always time to die"
Gary convention, 1972: "Unity without uniformity"
Busing in Boston, 1974-1976: "As if some alien was coming into the school"
Atlanta and affirmative action, 1973-1980: "Politics of inclusion"
Epilogue: From Miami to America's future

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Includes index

Includes bibliographical references (p. [665]-670)

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xxviii, 692 p. :
Number of pages
692

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OL22852884M
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0553352326
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