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The House by the Side of the Road
On Sunday, March 7, 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. and six
hundred followers set out on foot from Selma, Alabama, bound for
Montgomery to demand greater voting rights for African Americans.
As they crossed the city’s Edmund Pettus Bridge, state and
local policemen savagely set on the marchers with tear gas and
billy clubs, an event now known as “Bloody Sunday”
that would become one of the most iconic in American history.
King’s informal headquarters in Selma was the home of Dr.
Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson and their young
daughter, Jawana.
The House by the Side of the Road is Richie Jean’s
firsthand account of the private meetings King and his
lieutenants, including Ralph David Abernathy and John Lewis, held
in the haven of the Jackson home. Sullivan Jackson was an African
American dentist in Selma and a prominent supporter of the civil
rights movement. Richie Jean was a close childhood friend of
King’s wife, Coretta Scott King, a native of nearby Marion,
Alabama. Richie Jean’s fascinating account narrates how, in
the fraught months of 1965 that preceded the Voting Rights March,
King and his inner circle held planning sessions and met with
Assistant Attorney General John Doar to negotiate strategies for
the event. Just eight days after Bloody Sunday, President Lyndon
Johnson made a televised addressed to a joint session of Congress
on Monday, March 15. Jackson relates the intimate scene of King
and his lieutenants watching as Johnson called the nation to
dedicate itself to equal rights for all and ending his address
with the words: “We shall overcome.” Five months
later, Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act on August 6.
The major motion picture
Selma now commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of
Bloody Sunday and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. In it, Niecy Nash
and Kent Faulcon star as Sullivan and Richie Jean Jackson among a
cast including Oprah Winfrey, Tom Wilkinson, and Cuba Gooding Jr.
A gripping primary source,
The House by the Side of the Road illuminates the
private story whose public outcomes electrified the world and
changed the course of American history.
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This bright light of ours : stories from the Voting Rights fight
\"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\"-- Provided by publisher.
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This Bright Light of Ours
This Bright Light of Ours offers a tightly focused insider’s view of the community-based activism that was the heart of the civil rights movement. A celebration of grassroots heroes, this book details through first-person accounts the contributions of ordinary people who formed the nonviolent army that won the fight for voting rights.
Combining memoir and oral history, Maria Gitin fills a vital gap in civil rights history by focusing on the neglected Freedom Summer of 1965 when hundreds of college students joined forces with local black leaders to register thousands of new black voters in the rural South. Gitin was an idealistic nineteen-year-old college freshman from a small farming community north of San Francisco who felt called to action when she saw televised images of brutal attacks on peaceful demonstrators during Bloody Sunday, in Selma, Alabama.
Atypical among white civil rights volunteers, Gitin came from a rural low-income family. She raised funds to attend an intensive orientation in Atlanta featuring now-legendary civil rights leaders. Her detailed letters include the first narrative account of this orientation and the only in-depth field report from a teenage Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) project participant.
Gitin details the dangerous life of civil rights activists in Wilcox County, Alabama, where she was assigned. She tells of threats and arrests, but also of forming deep friendships and of falling in love. More than four decades later, Gitin returned to Wilcox County to revisit the people and places that she could never forget and to discover their views of the “outside agitators” who had come to their community. Through conversational interviews with more than fifty Wilcox County residents and former civil rights workers, she has created a channel for the voices of these unheralded heroes who formed the backbone of the civil rights movement.
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Selma, Lord, Selma: girlhood memories of the civil-rights days
Sheyann Webb was eight years old and Rachel West was nine when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Selma, Alabama, on January 2, 1965. He came to organize non-violent demonstrations against discriminatory voting laws. Selma, Lord, Selma is their firsthand account of the events from that turbulent winter of 1965--events that changed not only the lives of these two little girls but the lives of all Alabamians and all Americans. From 1975 to 1979, award-winning journalist Frank Sikora conducted interviews with Webb and West, weaving their recollections into this luminous story of fear and courage, struggle and redemption that readers will discover is Selma, Lord, Selma.
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Selma, Lord, Selma : girlhood memories of the civil-rights days
Sheyann Webb was eight years old and Rachel West was nine when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Selma, Alabama, on January 2, 1965. He came to organize non-violent demonstrations against discriminatory voting laws. Selma, Lord, Selma is their firsthand account of the events from that turbulent winter of 1965--events that changed not only the lives of these two little girls but the lives of all Alabamians and all Americans. From 1975 to 1979, award-winning journalist Frank Sikora conducted interviews with Webb and West, weaving their recollections into this luminous story of fear and courage, struggle and redemption that readers will discover is Selma, Lord, Selma.
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This bright light of ours: stories from the 1965 Voting Rights fight
This Bright Light of Ours offers a tightly focused insider's view of the community-based activism that was the heart of the civil rights movement. A celebration of grassroots heroes, this book details through first-person accounts the contributions of ordinary people who formed the nonviolent army that won the fight for voting rights.Combining memoir and oral history, Maria Gitin fills a vital gap in civil rights history by focusing on the neglected Freedom Summer of 1965 when hundreds of college students joined forces with local black leaders to register thousands of new black voters in the rural South. Gitin was an idealistic nineteen-year-old college freshman from a small farming community north of San Francisco who felt called to action when she saw televised images of brutal attacks on peaceful demonstrators during Bloody Sunday, in Selma, Alabama.Atypical among white civil rights volunteers, Gitin came from a rural low-income family. She raised funds to attend an intensive orientation in Atlanta featuring now-legendary civil rights leaders. Her detailed letters include the first narrative account of this orientation and the only in-depth field report from a teenage Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) project participant.Gitin details the dangerous life of civil rights activists in Wilcox County, Alabama, where she was assigned. She tells of threats and arrests, but also of forming deep friendships and of falling in love. More than four decades later, Gitin returned to Wilcox County to revisit the people and places that she could never forget and to discover their views of the \"outside agitators\" who had come to their community. Through conversational interviews with more than fifty Wilcox County residents and former civil rights workers, she has created a channel for the voices of these unheralded heroes who formed the backbone of the civil rights movement.
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