My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered - Softcover

Raines, Howell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0399118535 ISBN 13: 9780399118531

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 1977

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
• Publication date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0399118535
• ISBN 13: 9780399118531
• Binding: Paperback