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In Peace and Freedom : My Journey in Selma /

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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: LaFayette, Bernard, Jr (Autor), Johnson, Kathryn Lee, 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2013]
Colección:Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : The Road into Selma, Fall 1962
  • Preparing for Selma
  • Shackles of Fear, Handcuffs of Hopelessness
  • Preparing to Register to Vote
  • Central Alabama Heats Up
  • Mountains and Valleys
  • The March from Selma to Montgomery
  • Reflections on the Alabama Voter Registration Campaign
  • Epilogue : The road out of Selma, March 1965
  • Appendixes. A : Example of a Literacy Test for Registering to Vote ; B : Excerpt from President Lyndon B. Johnson's Special Message to the Congress : "The American Promise" ; C : Dr. King's Six Principles of Nonviolence Related to Selma ; D : Life Dates of Some Persons Referenced in the Book.