The Rest of the Dream : The Black Odyssey of Lyman Johnson /

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In The Rest of the Dream, Lyman Johnson, grassroots civil rights leader, tells his own story. All four of Johnson's grandparents were slaves in Tennessee. Yet his father was a college graduate, principal of a black school, and the inspiration for his son's love of justice. Lyman Johnson wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnson, Lyman T., 1906-1997
Other Authors: Hall, Wade, 1934-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 1988.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Johnson, Lyman T., > 1906-1997.
Race relations.
Civil rights workers.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Noirs americains > Droits > Kentucky.
Defenseurs des droits de l'homme > Kentucky > Biographies.
Noirs americains > Kentucky > Biographies.
African Americans > Civil rights > Kentucky.
Civil rights workers > Kentucky > Biography.
African Americans > Kentucky > Biography.
Kentucky.
Kentucky > Relations raciales.
Kentucky > Race relations.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 2340 Muhammad Ali Boulevard; Dark Days in Columbia; On the Road to Higher Education; Way Up North in Louisville; An Iconoclast in the Classroom; Black & White Niggers; Lifting Bales & Other Vocations; Jim Crow Days; Lunch Counters & Flaming Crosses; Black Heroes; Blacks at the Ballot Box; Uncle Tom & George Wallace; The Battle's Not Over; All Colors Are Beautiful; Musings of a Militant Pacifist; The Religion of a Doubting Thomas; The Rest of the Dream; Index.

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