Voices in Our Blood by Jon Meacham
Anunprecedented portraitof the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy,told through voices that resonate with passion and strength-including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and John Lewis"Jon Meacham . . . has done about the best job of anthologizing the movement that I've ever seen."-Tom Wicker, Mother Jones
Editor andPulitzer Prize-winning authorJon Meacham has chosen pieces by journalists, novelists, historians, and artists, bringing together a wide range of perspectives and experiences. The result isa literary anthology of important and artful interpretations ofthe movement's spirit and struggle.
Maya Angelou takes us on a poignant journey back to her childhood in the Arkansas of the 1930s. On the front page of The New York Times, James Reston marks the movement's apex as he describes what it was like to watch Martin Luther King, Jr., deliver his heralded "I Have a Dream"speech in real time. Alice Walker takes up the movement's progress a decade later in her article "Choosing to Stay at Home: Ten Years After the March on Washington."And John Lewis chronicles the unimaginable courage of the ordinary African Americans who challenged the prevailing order, paid for it in blood and tears, and justly triumphed.
Voices in Our Blood is a compelling look at the movement as it actually happened, from the days leading up to World War II to the anxieties and ambiguities of this new century. The story of race in America is a never-ending one, and Voices in Our Blood tells us how we got this far-and how far we still have to go to reach the Promised Land.
This powerful anthology contains works from:
Maya Angelou . Russell Baker . James Baldwin . Taylor Branch . Hodding Carter . Ellis Cose . Stanley Crouch . Ralph Ellison . William Faulkner . Marshall Frady . Henry Louis Gates, Jr. . Peter Goldman . David Halberstam . Alex Haley . Elizabeth Hardwick . Charlayne Hunter-Gault . Murray Kempton . John Lewis .Louis E. Lomax . Benjamin E. Mays . Willie Morris . Flannery O'Connor . Walker Percy . Howell Raines . James Reston . Carl T. Rowan . John Steinbeck . William Styron . Calvin Trillin . Alice Walker . Robert Penn Warren . Pat Watters . Bernard Weinraub . Eudora Welty .Rebecca West . E. B. White . Gary Wills . Tom Wolfe . Richard Wright
Jon Meacham is the author of the best-selling books Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power and American Lion, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Andrew Jackson, as well as American Gospel and Franklin and Winston. He works at Random House as an executive editor. He and his wife live in Nashville and Sewanee, Tennessee, with their three children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780375758812 |
| ISBN 10 | 037575881X |
| Title | Voices in Our Blood |
| Author | Jon Meacham |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2003-01-07 |
| Number of pages | 576 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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