Road through midnight : a civil rights memorial / Jessica Ingram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingram, Jessica, author.

Series:

Documentary arts and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Murder victims' families.

Ethnic conflict.

History.

United States.

Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century.

Southern States.

Ethnic conflict--United States--History--20th century.

Ethnic conflict--Southern States--History--20th century.

Murder victims' families--Interviews.

Race relations.

Southern States--Race relations--History--20th century.

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

Genre:

History.

Interviews.

Oral histories.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unnumbered pages) ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press : In association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, [2020]

Summary:

"In this book, Jessica Ingram presents photographs of landscapes that, to unaware passersby, look like nearly any other place in the Deep South: a fenced-in backyard, a dirt road covered with overgrowth, a field grooved with muddy tire prints. However, these seemingly ordinary places hold pivotal, often tragic, stories of the civil rights movement, though rarely is there a plaque with dates or names or any manmade indication of their importance. Most of these "un-memorialized" places are where bodies of African Americans-activists, paper mill workers, sharecroppers, and children-were found, victims of racial violence. These images are interspersed with oral histories from victims' families, journalists, and investigators, as well as newspaper microfiche, FBI files, and other archival ephemera. The narrative intensity grows in power, complexity, and depth as the book goes on and the history unfolds"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781469654232

1469654237

OCLC:

1110655785