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100 1 $aHalberstam, David.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021654
245 14 $aThe children /$cDavid Halberstam.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bRandom House,$c[1998], ©1998.
300 $a783 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aThe Children is David Halberstam's moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen through the story of the young people - the Children - who met in the 1960s and went on to lead the revolution. The Children is a story one of America's preeminent journalists has waited years to write, a powerful book about one of the most dramatic moments in recent American history.
520 8 $aThey came together as part of Reverend James Lawson's workshops on nonviolence, eight idealistic black students whose families had sacrificed much so that they could go to college. And they risked it all, and their lives besides, when they joined the growing civil rights movement. David Halberstam shows how Martin Luther King, Jr., recruited Lawson to come to Nashville to train students in Gandhian techniques of nonviolence.
520 8 $aWe see the strength of the families the Children came from, moving portraits of several generations of the black experience in America. We feel Diane Nash's fear before the first sit-in to protest segregation of Nashville lunch counters, and then see how Diane Nash and others - John Lewis, Gloria Johnson, Bernard Lafayette, Marion Barry, Curtis Murphy, James Bevel, Rodney Powell - persevered until they ultimately accomplished that goal. After the sit-ins, when the Freedom Rides to desegregate interstate buses were in danger of being stopped because of violence, it was these same young people who led the bitter battle into the Deep South.
520 8 $aHalberstam takes us into those buses, lets us witness the violence the students encountered in Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma. And he shows what has happened to the Children since the 1960s, as they have gone on with their lives.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100199
650 0 $aCivil rights movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100355
650 0 $aCivil rights workers$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117694
651 0 $aUnited States$xRace relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
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