Full name: My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered

Author: Howell Raines Year: 1977 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780140067538 0140067531

The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence. From the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968, these are the peeople who fought the epic battle: Rosa Parks, Andrew Young, Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams, Fannie Lou Hamer, and others, both black and white, who participated in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, voter drives, and campaigns for school and university integration.Here, too, are voices from the "Down-Home Resistance" that supported George Wallace, Bull Connor, and the "traditions" of the Old South--voices that conjure up the frightening terrain on which the battle was fought. My Soul is Rested is a powerful document of social and political history, as well as a magnificent tribute to those who made history happen. Similar books: The Children by David Halberstam Carry Me Home by Diane McWhorter Local People by John Dittmer Freedom Summer by Bruce Watson In Struggle by Clayborne Carson The Race Beat by Gene Roberts There Goes My Everything by Jason Sokol Freedom's Children by Ellen Levine Freedom Riders by Raymond Arsenault At Canaan's Edge by Taylor Branch Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle Sweet Land of Liberty by Thomas J. Sugrue Freedom Summer by Doug McAdam Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand Freedom Walkers by Russell Freedman Upstairs at the White House by J. B. West The Sisters by Mary S. Lovell The Most They Ever Had by Rick Bragg Don't Give Up, Don't Give In by Louis Zamperini