Author: Maria GitinPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817318178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Combining memoir with oral history, creates a vivid and searing portrait of the Freedom Summer of 1965
This Bright Light of Ours
Author: Maria GitinPublisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817318178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Combining memoir with oral history, creates a vivid and searing portrait of the Freedom Summer of 1965
This Light of Ours
Author: Leslie G. KelenPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496801601
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement is a paradigm-shifting publication that presents the Civil Rights Movement through the work of nine photographers who participated in the movement as activists with SNCC, SCLC, and CORE. Unlike images produced by photojournalists, who covered breaking news events, these photographers lived within the movement—primarily within the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) framework—and documented its activities by focusing on the student activists and local people who together made it happen. The core of the book is a selection of 150 black-and-white photographs, representing the work of photographers Bob Adelman, George Ballis, Bob Fitch, Bob Fletcher, Matt Herron, David Prince, Herbert Randall, Maria Varela, and Tamio Wakayama. Images are grouped around four movement themes and convey SNCC's organizing strategies, resolve in the face of violence, impact on local and national politics, and influence on the nation's consciousness. The photographs and texts of This Light of Ours remind us that the movement was a battleground, that the battle was successfully fought by thousands of “ordinary” Americans among whom were the nation's courageous youth, and that the movement's moral vision and impact continue to shape our lives.
One of Ours
Author: Willa CatherPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442934379
Category : Farm life
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Paris Was Ours
Author: Penelope RowlandsPublisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616200367
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Thirty-two writers share their observations and revelations about the world's most seductive city. "Whether you have lived in Paris or not, this captivating collection will transport you there." —National Geographic Traveler Paris is “the world capital of memory and desire,” concludes one of the writers in this intimate and insightful collection of memoirs of the city. Living in Paris changed these writers forever. In thirty-two personal essays—more than half of which are here published for the first time—the writers describe how they were seduced by Paris and then began to see things differently. They came to write, to cook, to find love, to study, to raise children, to escape, or to live the way it’s done in French movies; they came from the United States, Canada, and England; from Iran, Iraq, and Cuba; and—a few—from other parts of France. And they stayed, not as tourists, but for a long time; some are still living there. They were outsiders who became insiders, who here share their observations and revelations. Some are well-known writers: Diane Johnson, David Sedaris, Judith Thurman, Joe Queenan, and Edmund White. Others may be lesser known but are no less passionate on the subject. Together, their reflections add up to an unusually perceptive and multifaceted portrait of a city that is entrancing, at times exasperating, but always fascinating. They remind us that Paris belongs to everyone it has touched, and to each in a different way.
This Bright Light of Ours
Author: Maria GitinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780817772178
Category : HISTORY
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
"This Bright Light of Ours combines a memoir with oral history to create a very vivid portrait of the Freedom Summer of 1965 in Wilcox County, Alabama, when volunteers and long-standing local black leaders were shaking the cultural norms, registering thousands of new voters. This book documents the first-person experience of Maria Gitin, an idealistic 18-year-old college freshman from San Francisco who felt called to action when she viewed televised images of the brutal treatment of peaceful demonstrators during what became known as Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama"--
This World of Ours
Author: Hugh Oakeley Arnold-ForsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Give Us the Vote!
Author: Susan Goldman RubinPublisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823439577
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The corruption, activism, heroic efforts, and ongoing struggles for the right to vote are chronicled by an award-winning nonfiction author. For over 200 years, people have marched, gone to jail, risked their lives, and even died trying to get the right to vote in the United States. Others, hungry to acquire or hold onto power, have gone to extraordinary lengths to prevent people from casting ballets or outright stolen votes and sometimes entire elections. Perfect for students who want to know more about voting rights, this nonfiction book contains an extensive view of suffrage from the Founding Fathers to the 19th Amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to today's voter suppression controversies, and explains the barriers people of color, Indigenous people, and immigrants face. Back matter includes a bibliography, source notes, texts of the Constitution and amendments, a timeline, and an index. A Junior Library Guild Selection Selected for the CBC Champions of Change Showcase A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year!
Racism, Hypocrisy, and Bad Faith: A Moral Challenge to the America I Love
Author: Julius BaileyPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460406931
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The election of President Donald Trump, through his campaign of race-baiting, sexual harassment, and blatant disregard for human decency, lowered the moral bar of American public discourse. Julius Bailey’s latest book discusses the current state of hypocrisy and mistrust in the American political system, especially as these affect ethnic minorities and low-income groups. In powerful and inspiring prose, Bailey writes with a voice well informed by current events, empirical data, and philosophical observation. Bailey looks at the causes and consequences of this new era and applies his passionate yet astute analysis to issues such as hate speech, gerrymandering, the use of the Confederate flag, and America’s relationship with the gun.
Hours with the First Falling Leaves
Author: Kenelm Henry DigbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Author: Charles Lever