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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Langue: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
The University Press of Kentucky,
[2013]
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.