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Children of the Movement
by Blake, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1556525370
- ISBN 13
- 9781556525377
- Seller
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Maysville, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Hardcover. 260 pp. Lawrence Hill Books, Chicago (2004). First Edition stated. Number Line 5 thru 1. $24.95 origonal price on unclipped DJ.Near New condition. Near New DJ. Signed by author with inscription on FFEP. More photos upon request. Shipped in a box within a box, in bubble wrap; with a tracking number.
Synopsis
Profiling 24 of the adult children of the most recognizable figures in the civil rights movement, this book collects the intimate, moving stories of families who were pulled apart by the horrors of the struggle or brought together by their efforts to change America. The whole range of players is covered, from the children of leading figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and martyrs like James Earl Chaney to segregationists like George Wallace and Black Panther leaders like Elaine Brown. The essays reveal that some children are more pessimistic than their parents, whose idealism they saw destroyed by the struggle, while others are still trying to change the world. Included are such inspiring stories as the daughter of a notoriously racist Southern governor who finds her calling as a teacher in an all-black inner-city school and the daughter of a famous martyr who unexpectedly meets her mother’s killer. From the first activists killed by racist Southerners to the current global justice protestors carrying on the work of their parents, these profiles offer a look behind the public face of the triumphant civil rights movement and show the individual lives it changed in surprising ways.
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- BookRanger
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BR-1017-226
- Title
- Children of the Movement
- Author
- Blake, John
- Format/Binding
- Sewn binding is square and tight. Block and pages are clean and unmarked.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition stated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1556525370
- ISBN 13
- 9781556525377
- Publisher
- Lawrence Hill Books
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 2004
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