Do you think that if Mrs. It also has accounts of those who were fighting to keep segregation. The interview with The book took nineteen months to complete. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Get this from a library! The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. My Soul is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered.

An interesting oral history of the Civil Rights Movement. The stories Raines collects make clear the utter evil of racism and the courage of those who fought against segregation. Some people were involved before that nation took notice and MLK Jr. joined. Concentrating on Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi, Raines interviewed hundreds and presents their comments in a connective tissue of introductory remarks and cross-referenced notes.

My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered This collection of testimonies documents the true difficulty of enacting societal change, and the courage it requires of the participants.Excellent telling of the civil rights movement from the perspectives of all the foot soldiers. Published in 1977, it won the 1978 Alabama Author Award for Nonfiction. It's so refreshing to hear what ACTUALLY happened instead of the canonized version of history.

I loved this book. My Soul is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered is an African American history book by Howell Raines. By .

Depending on the study guide provider (SparkNotes, Shmoop, etc. From the Rosa Parks bus incident in Montgomery to King's death in Memphis, recollections of the Movement by activists, agitators, and onlookers, lawyers and lawmen, Freedom Riders and Klansmen, reporters, schoolchildren, and devout segregationists—both reconciled and unrepentant. Most of the backstage maneuvers are public knowledge now--Kennedy compliance in King's surveillance, publicity stunts, organizational and personal rivalries--but there are some minor items churned up: Bull Connors' deal for an exchange of powers, cunning ploys for a Martin Luther King dinner. Became interested after seeing the movie 'Selma'.

I loved this book. I particularly remember reading his oral history of the Police Chief of Albany, Georgia, and how he tried to convince Birmingham's Commissioner of Public Safety (!)

I also loved getting some of the inside story of the business leaders who worked together to bring peace to our war-torn city, especially the story of A.G. Gaston and his family, a black business and moral leader.A wonderful collection of first-hand accounts of the struggles to desegregate the American South from 1957 through 1968. Interviews with leaders, followers, and opponents of the civil rights movement in the South present the history of that movement from the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968. Interviews.

(He won it for his reporting about his family's maid.) A couple of the interviews with segregationalists seemed strangely pertinent to today's debate about health care reform — the realization that sometimes people who distort the truth actually believe their own distortions. A great book, but may be confusing for those who are unfamiliar with the many different phases and events of the civil rights movement.

Touching and inspiring.My Soul is Rested is the reason Howell Raines should have won the Pulitzer Prize. Also includes sites with a short overview, synopsis, book report, or summary of Tananarive Due’s My Soul to Keep. Raines began to pursue the issue with Cutler 1978, "'My Soul is Rested' Stirs Unrest In Marketing"

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It was a different perspective from those who were involved in the movement as opposed to the straight history books. Each chapter is one person's story during the civil rights movement. I also loved getting some of the inside story of the business leaders who worked together to bring peace to our war-torn city, especially the story of A.G. Gaston and his family, a black business and moral leader.A wonderful collection of first-hand accounts of the struggles to desegregate the American South from 1957 through 1968. About Howell Raines. This country must continue working relentlessly together for equal rights, equal opportunity, and recognize that there is only one hI reread this book that had deeply impressed me by the courageous people Of the Civil Rights Movement who resisted the Jim Crow South, its traditions, and inequalities. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence. Incredible oral history of the Civil Rights Movement with personal detail and depth. This country must continue working relentlessly together for equal rights, equal opportunity, and recognize that there is only one human race.Probably one of the best books I read all summer. It was very worthwhile reading My Soul Is Rested, it was fascinating having all the different people tell their little stories, their experiences.One of my alltime favorites.

King would've never stood I felt this book should be more widely known and started a Wikipedia article about it and while doing the research for that article, learned interesting information about how some tried to keep this book out of the bookstores in the South. There were different ideas of Martin Luther King and the "older" group compared to many of these interviewed who were college students at the time. ; Southern States. In My Soul is Rested, Raines interviewed key participants during the Civil Rights struggles of the South, particularly his (and my) home city of Birmingham, Alabama. ; African Americans - Civil rights - Southern States. I am really enjoying this book. Weisbrot, Robert. I am really enjoying this book. A couple of the interviews with segregationalists seemed strangely pertinent to today's debate about health care reform — the realization that sometimes people who distort the truth actually believe their own distortions. "This one of the best books I've read. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. (pg 51) Do you think this is true? He later learned through Charles Haslam, president of the American Booksellers Association, that G.P.

It also has accounts of those who were fighting to keep segregation.


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