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Birmingham foot soldiers : voices of the civil rights movement / Nick Patterson.
Van Pelt Library F334.B69 N465 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Patterson, Nick, 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Birmingham--Biography.
- African American civil rights workers.
- Civil rights workers--Alabama--Birmingham--Biography.
- Civil rights workers.
- Civil rights movements--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- History.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Birmingham (Ala.)--Race relations.
- Birmingham (Ala.).
- Race relations.
- Alabama--Birmingham.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 173 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- Reverends Martin Luther King Jr., Andrew Young and Fred Shuttlesworth are iconic names associated with the Birmingham campaign of the civil rights movement. Credit also is due to many local residents who risked their lives for the cause. Myrna Carter Jackson holds no shame in the police record she garnered in protest of the harsh treatment of African Americans in the city. Carolyn Walker Williams, who knew the injustice blacks faced in East Birmingham even as a child, was arrested in protest for the first time while still in school. Gerald Wren grew up in the Smithfield neighborhood, part of which was nicknamed "Dynamite Hill" as a result of the bombings of blacks' houses, churches and schools. Join author Nick Patterson as he interviews some of Birmingham's foot soldiers and recounts the struggle and adversity overcome. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Fred Shuttlesworth
- Ira Sims
- From BCRI OHP: Floretta Scruggs Tyson
- Gloria Washington Lewis Randall
- Carol Jackson Walton
- Myrna Carter Jackson
- Carolyn Walker Williams
- Clifton Casey
- Annie Cunningham Sewell
- Gerald Wren
- Raymond Goolsby
- Terry Collins
- Chuck Avery
- Rose Marie Cook
- Leroy Stover.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781626192201
- 1626192200
- OCLC:
- 858901588
- Publisher Number:
- 99959223734
- Online:
- Publisher description
- Contributor biographical information
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