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Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement

✍ Scribed by Meacham, Jon


Book ID
107580791
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
500 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780375506826

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✦ Synopsis


Voices in Our Blood is a literary anthology of the most important and artful interpretations of the civil rights movement, past and present. It showcases what forty of the nation's best writers -- including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, and Richard Wright -- had to say about the central domestic drama of the American Century.

Editor Jon Meacham has chosen pieces by journalists, novelists, historians, and artists, bringing together a wide range of black and white perspectives and experiences. The result is an unprecedented and powerful portrait of the movement's spirit and struggle, told through voices that resonate with passion and strength.

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...


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