Synopsis
Interviews with men and women, both black and white, who participated in various ways in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s provide a first-hand history of the movement, its leaders, supporters, and opponents, and its accomplishments
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Review
"So touching, so exhilirating ... no book for a long time has left me so moved or so happy."
--Anthony Lewis, The New York Times Book Review
"Deeply affecting and searingly vivid"
--Atlanta Journal
"Remarkable ... the realities of our social history are described in a kind of magnificent humaneness."
--Chicago Tribune Book World
About the Author
Before stepping down in 2003, Howell Raines was executive editor of The New York Times. He is the author of Whiskey Man, a novel, and My Soul Is Rested, an oral history of the Civil Rights movement. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1992.
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My Soul is Rested; Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered
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