The March against fear : the last great walk of the Civil Rights Movement and the emergence of Black power / Ann Bausum
Material type: TextDescription: 143 pages : black & white illustrations, map ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781426326653
- 1426326653
- 9781426326660
- 1426326661
- Last great walk of the Civil Rights Movement and the emergence of Black power
- Meredith, James, 1933- -- Juvenile literature
- Civil rights demonstrations -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- African American college students -- Mississippi -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- Black power -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- Mississippi -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- 323.1196 BAU
- E185.93.M6 B37 2017
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Non Fiction | MVS Library Main room-Teen/Adult | B- Nonfiction (Teen/Adult) | 323.1196 BAU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 4009667 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-135) and index
A tremor -- Wild ideas -- Reactions -- Revived -- Delta bound -- Black power -- Earthquake -- White rage -- Supremacy -- Reunited -- Finale -- Aftershocks
Mississippi. 1966. On a hot June afternoon, an African-American man named James Meredith set out to walk through his home state, intending to fight racism and fear with his feet. A seemingly simple plan, but one teeming with risk. Just one day later Meredith was shot and wounded in a roadside ambush. Within twenty-four hours, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and other civil rights leaders had taken up Meredith's cause, determined to overcome this violent act and complete Meredith's walk. The stakes were high -- there was no time for advance planning and their route cut through dangerous territory. No one knew if they would succeed. By many measures, the March Against Fear became one of the greatest protests of the civil rights era. But it was also one of the last, and the campaign has been largely forgotten
Ages 12 and up
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