And We are Not Saved: A History of the Movement as People"This is a carefully-studied account of the Civil Rights Movement of the early sixties, written by a young woman who was involved in it from the beginning, who knew first-hand the people and the events concerned. It is a book about people rather than personalities. Mrs. Louis begins with a discussion of the backgrounds of the various young people who made up the movement--what sorts of families they came from, and what there was about the mood of the fifties that gave some their passionate commitment, others only a sympathetic interest. She then follows the movement as it developed, leading the reader from Greensboro to Birmingham to the Mississippi Summer, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, to Watts and the end of the movement's dynamic period. Throughout her concern is not what happened so much as why it happened. Her history is written from the point of view of the civil rights worker as [they] saw the movement--and events all over America--from the rural South and the urban ghetto: worlds apart from The New York times. The final chapters deal with events since the movement's dynamic period--the growth of black power, student radicalism, and Vietnam protests on the one hand, the alienated drop-outs on the other."--Dust jacket flap. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Some Relevant Notes Before We Begin | 9 |
The Inadequacy of Material Sources | 18 |
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