In Peace and Freedom : My Journey in Selma /

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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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Main Authors: LaFayette, Bernard, Jr (Author), Johnson, Kathryn Lee, 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
LaFayette, Bernard, > Jr.
Race relations > Political aspects.
Race relations.
African Americans > Suffrage.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African American civil rights workers.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Political.
Defenseurs des droits de l'homme noirs americains > Biographies.
Noirs americains > Suffrage > Alabama > Selma > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Droits > Alabama > Selma > Histoire > 20e siecle.
African American civil rights workers > Biography.
African Americans > Suffrage > Alabama > Selma > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Alabama > Selma > History > 20th century.
United States.
Alabama > Selma.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Aspect politique.
United States > Race relations > Political aspects.
Selma (Ala.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
History.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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