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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Summary: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 the nation.
Physical Description:1 online resource (240 pages).
ISBN:9780813144351

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