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Selma 1965

Author : Charles Eugene Fager
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781505978643
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Selma 1965 written by Charles Eugene Fager and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The high point of the 1960s civil rights movement, Selma was a landmark achievement for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, religious activists from all over the country, and the brave citizens of Selma who made it happen. This watershed 1965 direct action campaign resulted in passage of the Voting Rights Act. 'Selma 1965," first published in 1974, is widely recognized as the most vivid and accurate account of the Selma movement for general readers. For this Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, it has been updated with an overview of the continuing struggles for justice and equality for all, both in Selma and across the Unites States. Charles Fager was a junior staff member for Dr. King's Southern Christian leadership Conference in 1965. Since then he has been a reporter, researcher, peace activist, and the author of numerous books. "A fascinating portrait of the most significant campaign of the civil rights movement. Charles Fager's Selma 1965 does more than any book I have read to bring that epoch back to life. The story of Selma is a rich, complex one, with important positive and negative lessons for anyone who cares about the art of political organizing. Fager's carefully-researched, precisely written book tells it with great clarity and power." - Washington Post Book World "One of the most notable studies of a social crisis to appear in recent years . . . .As reported in this temperate and balanced account, the victory was not an easy one." -Christian Century "Through graphic scenes and dramatic narration, Selma 1965, provides a fascinating, unforgettable portrait of the most significant campaign of the civil rights movement....His compelling work keeps Selma, 1965, firmly in our memories, our imaginations, and our hearts." -Stephen B. Oates, author, Let the Trumpet Sound, The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Selma 1965

Author : Spider Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781477308394
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Selma 1965 written by Spider Martin and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Spider, we could have marched, we could have protested forever, but if it weren’t for guys like you, it would have been for nothing. The whole world saw your pictures. That’s why the Voting Rights Act passed.” —Martin Luther King, 1965 “Spider Martin, more than any other photographer of our time, has used his camera to document the struggle for civil rights and social change in the State of Alabama. . . . In viewing Spider’s collection, one is literally walking through the pages of American history.” —John Lewis, 1996 “It is largely because of [Martin’s] talent that we, as a people and a nation, so vividly remember ‘Bloody Sunday.’ Although violence broke out at many other places, and on many other days, the images from this critical day are forever emblazoned in the public consciousness.” —Andrew Young, 1992 On March 7, 1965, six hundred people led by John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, set out to march from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery to demand the right to vote. The march ended violently on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, as Alabama state troopers beat and gassed the unresisting marchers. But images of “Bloody Sunday” seared the national conscience and helped galvanize the passage of the Voting Rights Act later that year. Spider Martin captured many indelible images of Bloody Sunday as a photojournalist for the Birmingham News. His photographs of the Selma marches and the civil rights struggle were seen all over the world, appearing in such publications as Time, Life, Der Spiegel, Stern, the Saturday Evening Post, and Paris Match. Drawn from Martin’s archive at the Briscoe Center for American History, this book gathers several dozen of the most powerful and poignant images, many of which have never been published, for the first time in a single volume. A lasting testament to the courage of the civil rights generation, they also reveal a rookie photographer’s determination to bear witness to a movement that transformed the American nation.

Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom

Author : Lynda Blackmon Lowery
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0147512166
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom written by Lynda Blackmon Lowery and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of the Civil Rights Movement from one of its youngest heroes--now in paperback will an all-new discussion guide. As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that young adults can be heroes. Jailed eleven times before her fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. for the rights of African-Americans. In this memoir, she shows today's young readers what it means to fight nonviolently (even when the police are using violence, as in the Bloody Sunday protest) and how it felt to be part of changing American history. Straightforward and inspiring, this beautifully illustrated memoir brings readers into the middle of the Civil Rights Movement, complementing Common Core classroom learning and bringing history alive for young readers.

Protest at Selma

Author : David J. Garrow
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504011546
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Protest at Selma written by David J. Garrow and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough and insightful account of the historic 1965 civil rights protest at Selma, Alabama, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Bearing the Cross Vivid descriptions of violence and courageous acts fill David Garrow’s account of the momentous 1965 protest at Selma, Alabama, in which the author illuminates the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in organizing the demonstrations that led to the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. Beyond a mere narration of events, Garrow provides an in-depth look at the political strategy of King and of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He explains how King’s awareness of media coverage of the protests—especially reports of white violence against peaceful African American protestors—would elicit sympathy for the cause and lead to dramatic legislative change. Garrow’s analysis of these tactics and of the news reports surrounding these events provides a deeper understanding of how civil rights activists utilized a nonviolent approach to achieve success in the face of great opposition and ultimately effected monumental political change.

Selma, Lord, Selma

Author : Sheyann Webb
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817308989
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Selma, Lord, Selma written by Sheyann Webb and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1997-04-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This moving firsthand account puts the 1965 struggle for Civil Rights in Selma, Alabama, in very human terms.

Selma’s Bloody Sunday

Author : Robert A. Pratt
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421421593
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Selma’s Bloody Sunday written by Robert A. Pratt and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slow march toward freedom -- Seeds of protest -- Bloody Sunday -- My feets is tired, but my soul is rested -- A season of suffering

From Selma to Montgomery

Author : Barbara Harris Combs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136173765
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book From Selma to Montgomery written by Barbara Harris Combs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 7, 1965, a peaceful voting rights demonstration in Selma, Alabama, was met with an unprovoked attack of shocking violence that riveted the attention of the nation. In the days and weeks following "Bloody Sunday," the demonstrators would not be deterred, and thousands of others joined their cause, culminating in the successful march from Selma to Montgomery. The protest marches led directly to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a major piece of legislation, which, ninety-five years after the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, made the practice of the right to vote available to all Americans, irrespective of race. From Selma to Montgomery chronicles the marches, placing them in the context of the long Civil Rights Movement, and considers the legacy of the Act, drawing parallels with contemporary issues of enfranchisement. In five concise chapters bolstered by primary documents including civil rights legislation, speeches, and news coverage, Combs introduces the Civil Rights Movement to undergraduates through the courageous actions of the freedom marchers.

The Selma Campaign, 1963-1965

Author : Wally G. Vaughn
Publisher : The Majority Press
ISBN 13 : 9780912469447
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book The Selma Campaign, 1963-1965 written by Wally G. Vaughn and published by The Majority Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dallas County Voters League, an organisation comprised primarily of black men, began seeking avenues in the 1940s to gradually transform the oppressive environments in which they lived. The quiet, protracted Civil Rights struggle culminated in 1963 when black students from Hudson High School in Selma became pivotal participants in launching the public movement. The Selma campaign was in jeopardy in late 1964, so local leaders invited Martin Luther King to assist them. The rest, as they say, is history.

Selma and the Liuzzo Murder Trials

Author : James P. Turner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472053744
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Selma and the Liuzzo Murder Trials written by James P. Turner and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating examination of the Viola Liuzzo trials, with a foreword by Ari Berman

The Teachers March!

Author : Sandra Neil Wallace
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 1635924537
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Teachers March! written by Sandra Neil Wallace and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOUR STARRED REVIEWS! NCTE Orbis Pictus Honor Book ° Booklist Editors' Choice ° Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Finalist ° A Notable Book for a Global Society ★ "An alarmingly relevant book that mirrors current events." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review Demonstrating the power of protest and standing up for a just cause, here is an exciting tribute to the educators who participated in the 1965 Selma Teachers' March. Reverend F.D. Reese was a leader of the Voting Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama. As a teacher and principal, he recognized that his colleagues were viewed with great respect in the city. Could he convince them to risk their jobs--and perhaps their lives--by organizing a teachers-only march to the county courthouse to demand their right to vote? On January 22, 1965, the Black teachers left their classrooms and did just that, with Reverend Reese leading the way. Noted nonfiction authors Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace conducted the last interviews with Reverend Reese before his death in 2018 and interviewed several teachers and their family members in order to tell this story, which is especially important today.

Selma to Saigon

Author : Daniel S. Lucks
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813145090
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Selma to Saigon written by Daniel S. Lucks and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Selma to Saigon Daniel S. Lucks explores the impact of the Vietnam War on the national civil rights movement. Through detailed research and a powerful narrative, Lucks illuminates the effects of the Vietnam War on leaders such as Whitney Young Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Roy Wilkins, Bayard Rustin, and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as lesser-known Americans in the movement who faced the threat of the military draft as well as racial discrimination and violence.

Dividing Lines

Author : J. Mills Thornton
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 081731170X
Total Pages : 749 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Dividing Lines written by J. Mills Thornton and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2002-09-25 with total page 749 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In all three cities, the white municipal leadership, which had previously been united and intractable, experienced deep divisions, creating the indispensable window that permitted the resistance movements. Dividing Lines shows that the action campaigns in three southern cities that mobilized black resistance to segregation and disfranchisement grew directly from specific events of municipal politics in those cities."--BOOK JACKET.

The House by the Side of the Road

Author : Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817316949
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The House by the Side of the Road written by Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a firsthand account of the behind-the-scenes activity of King and his lieutenants--a mixture of stress, tension, dedication, and the personal interaction at the movement's heart--told by Richie Jean Jackson, who carefully created a safe haven for the civil rights leaders and dealt with the innumerable demands of living in the eye of events that would forever change America.

Hands on the Freedom Plow

Author : Faith S. Holsaert
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252098870
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Hands on the Freedom Plow written by Faith S. Holsaert and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hands on the Freedom Plow, fifty-two women--northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina--share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement. The testimonies gathered here present a sweeping personal history of SNCC: early sit-ins, voter registration campaigns, and freedom rides; the 1963 March on Washington, the Mississippi Freedom Summer, and the movements in Alabama and Maryland; and Black Power and antiwar activism. Since the women spent time in the Deep South, many also describe risking their lives through beatings and arrests and witnessing unspeakable violence. These intense stories depict women, many very young, dealing with extreme fear and finding the remarkable strength to survive. The women in SNCC acquired new skills, experienced personal growth, sustained one another, and even had fun in the midst of serious struggle. Readers are privy to their analyses of the Movement, its tactics, strategies, and underlying philosophies. The contributors revisit central debates of the struggle including the role of nonviolence and self-defense, the role of white people in a black-led movement, and the role of women within the Movement and the society at large. Each story reveals how the struggle for social change was formed, supported, and maintained by the women who kept their "hands on the freedom plow." As the editors write in the introduction, "Though the voices are different, they all tell the same story--of women bursting out of constraints, leaving school, leaving their hometowns, meeting new people, talking into the night, laughing, going to jail, being afraid, teaching in Freedom Schools, working in the field, dancing at the Elks Hall, working the WATS line to relay horror story after horror story, telling the press, telling the story, telling the word. And making a difference in this world."

Reflections of the 1965 Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama

Author : Susan Jans-Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780773426535
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Reflections of the 1965 Freedom March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama written by Susan Jans-Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dr. Jans-Thomas revisits an important location in the Civil Rights movement and walks through various places along the march from Selma to Birmingham, Alabama. Her stories are largely anecdotal, but the overall portrait she paints of the towns are vivid because she outlines how the culture has changed since the 1950's and 60's. The portrayal of the towns is suitable, not only for introductory college students, but advanced high school students as well. The book reads like a historical narrative and a sociological field study, and its importance derives from the juxtaposition of past struggles mixed with signs of the contemporary triumphs that the Civil Rights movement achieved. Collectively, we all participate in history. The purpose of this study is to show that agents of change have an important role to play in shaping the future of the communities they impact."--publisher website.

In Peace and Freedom

Author : Bernard LaFayetteJr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813144345
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book In Peace and Freedom written by Bernard LaFayetteJr. and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard LaFayette Jr. (b. 1940) was a cofounder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a leader in the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins, a Freedom Rider, an associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the national coordinator of the Poor People's Campaign. At the young age of twenty-two, he assumed the directorship of the Alabama Voter Registration Project in Selma -- a city that had previously been removed from the organization's list due to the dangers of operating there. In this electrifying memoir, written with Kathryn Lee Johnson, LaFayette shares the inspiring story of his years in Selma. When he arrived in 1963, Selma was a small, quiet, rural town. By 1965, it had made its mark in history and was nationally recognized as a battleground in the fight for racial equality and the site of one of the most important victories for social change in our nation. LaFayette was one of the primary organizers of the 1965 Selma voting rights movement and the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, and he relates his experiences of these historic initiatives in close detail. Today, as the constitutionality of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act is still questioned, citizens, students, and scholars alike will want to look to this book as a guide. Important, compelling, and powerful, In Peace and Freedom presents a necessary perspective on the civil rights movement in the 1960s from one of its greatest leaders.

Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma

Author : Karlyn Forner
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822372231
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma written by Karlyn Forner and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma Karlyn Forner rewrites the heralded story of Selma to explain why gaining the right to vote did not bring about economic justice for African Americans in the Alabama Black Belt. Drawing on a rich array of sources, Forner illustrates how voting rights failed to offset decades of systematic disfranchisement and unequal investment in African American communities. Forner contextualizes Selma as a place, not a moment within the civil rights movement —a place where black citizens' fight for full citizenship unfolded alongside an agricultural shift from cotton farming to cattle raising, the implementation of federal divestment policies, and economic globalization. At the end of the twentieth century, Selma's celebrated political legacy looked worlds apart from the dismal economic realities of the region. Forner demonstrates that voting rights are only part of the story in the black freedom struggle and that economic justice is central to achieving full citizenship.