Bøger af Horace Randall Williams

A Summary of the American Civil Rights Struggle from 1619 in Jamestown to 1965 in Selma

The personal account of the triumph of a Southern black woman, Mrs. Johnnie Carr, who overcame poverty, limited education, and racism to become a wife, mother, and civic leader. Johnnie also reveals the civil rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama. A childhood friend of Rosa Parks, as an adult she inspired Mrs. Parks to join the NAACP. Since 1968, Mrs. Carr has been president of the group which organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Her connection to Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and E.D. Nixon gives her a unique opportunity to offer insights and observations.

In the 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project hired writers to interview as many former slaves as they could find and document their lives during slavery. With this volume, Blair continues its Real Voices, Real History series with selections from interviews with former Alabama slaves. It also includes an excerpt from Thirty Years a Slave by Louis Hughes.Williams is the founding director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Klanwatch Project and editor-in-chief of NewSouth Books in Montgomery, Alabama.