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If your back's not bent : the role of the Citizenship Education Program in the civil rights movement / Dorothy F. Cotton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cotton, Dorothy F., 1930-2018.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cotton, Dorothy F., 1930-2018.
- Cotton, Dorothy F.
- Citizenship Education Program--History.
- Citizenship Education Program.
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference--History.
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
- African American women civil rights workers--Biography.
- African American women civil rights workers.
- African American women educators--Biography.
- African American women educators.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- United States--Race relations--History--20th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 323 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atria Books, ©2012.
- Contents:
- Sharing the prize
- When the spark was lit
- "There's your ready girl"
- People get ready, there's a "change" a-comin'
- Meeting Dr. King
- Grew like Topsy
- Why not you?
- "The cobwebs commenced a-movin' from my brain"
- The reason I sing this song
- The essence of nonviolence is love
- Dr. King and the team of wild horses
- On into the twentieth century via Birmingham
- "The spirit was movin' all over this land"
- Growing challenges to our approach in working for change
- The King is dead! What in the world do I do now?
- After the assassination
- Legacy: revisiting the Dorchester Center
- Epilogue: going forward in the twenty-first century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781439187425 (electronic bk.)
- 1439187428 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 99994383169
- 40021397627
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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