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An easy burden : the civil rights movement and the transformation of America /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1996.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 550 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0060173629
  • 9780060173623
  • 0060928905 (pbk.)
  • 9780060928902 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Easy burden.; Online version:: Easy burden.DDC classification:
  • 323/.092 21
LOC classification:
  • E840.8.Y64 A3 1996
Other classification:
  • 15.85
Contents:
Part 1. 1932-1961 -- Don't get mad, get smart -- Among the talented tenth -- Somebody's calling my name -- Jean -- Serving Bethany -- The establishment at prayer -- Look away Dixie -- Part 2. 1961-1968 -- The singing movement -- The Lord is with this movement -- Redeeming the soul of America -- Walking through the valley -- International acclaim, domestic harassment -- Give us the ballot -- Going to Chicago -- War and poverty -- Let us slay the dreamer -- Part 3. 1968-1972 -- City of hope -- What shall become of his dream.
Summary: The civil rights movement and the generations of men and women who lived and died to redeem the soul of America changed this country and the world forever. An Easy Burden is a masterful first-person account of the brave and the foolhardy, the weak and the strong, the blind and the visionary, who fought on both sides of that struggle.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode
NF NF Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 323.092 YOU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) E840.8.Y64 Available 34562000048677

Includes index.

Part 1. 1932-1961 -- Don't get mad, get smart -- Among the talented tenth -- Somebody's calling my name -- Jean -- Serving Bethany -- The establishment at prayer -- Look away Dixie -- Part 2. 1961-1968 -- The singing movement -- The Lord is with this movement -- Redeeming the soul of America -- Walking through the valley -- International acclaim, domestic harassment -- Give us the ballot -- Going to Chicago -- War and poverty -- Let us slay the dreamer -- Part 3. 1968-1972 -- City of hope -- What shall become of his dream.

The civil rights movement and the generations of men and women who lived and died to redeem the soul of America changed this country and the world forever. An Easy Burden is a masterful first-person account of the brave and the foolhardy, the weak and the strong, the blind and the visionary, who fought on both sides of that struggle.

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