Short stories of the civil rights movement : an anthology / edited by Margaret Earley Whitt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Whitt, Margaret Earley, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

Race relations.

History.

United States.

Civil rights movements--Fiction.

Civil rights movements.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century--Fiction.

Genre:

Short stories, American.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xviii, 343 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2006]

Contents:

School desegregation. See what tomorrow brings (1968) / James W. Thompson ; The first day of school (1958) / R.V. Cassill ; Neighbors (1966) / Diane Oliver ; Spring is now (1968) / Joan Williams

Sit-ins. The beginning of violence (1985) / Joanne Leedom-Ackerman ; The welcome table (1996) / Lee Martin ; Food that pleases, food to take home (1995) / Anthony Grooms ; Direct action (1963) / Mike Thelwell ; Doris is coming (2003) / Z Z Packer

Marches and demonstrations. Negro progress (1994) / Anthony Grooms ; The marchers (1979) / Henry Dumas ; Moonshot (1989) / Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown ; Selma (1972) / Natalie L. M. Petesch ; Marching through Boston (1966) / John Updike

Acts of violence. The convert (1963) / Lerone Bennett Jr. ; Where is the voice coming from? (1963) / Eudora Welty ; Liars don't qualify (1961) / Junius Edwards ; Advancing Luna

and Ida B. Wells (1977) / Alice Walker ; Means and ends (1985) / Rosellen Brown ; Going to meet the man (1965) / James Baldwin

Retrospective. Flora Devine (1995) / Anthony Grooms ; Paying my dues (1996) / Val Coleman ; To my young husband (2000) / Alice Walker.

ISBN:

0820327999

0820328510

OCLC:

67773673

Publisher Number:

9780820327990

9780820328515