In peace and freedom : my journey in Selma

Title
: 
In peace and freedom : my journey in Selma

Author
: 
LaFayette, Bernard, Jr., author.

ISBN
: 
9780813143866

Physical Description
: 
xiv, 195 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series
: 
Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.

Contents
: 
Prologue: The Road into Selma, Fall 1962 -- Preparing for Selma -- Shackles of Fear, Handcuffs of Hopelessness -- Preparing to Register to Vote -- Central Alabama Heats Up -- Mountains and Valleys -- The March from Selma to Montgomery -- Reflections on the Alabama Voter Registration Campaign -- Epilogue: The road out of Selma, March 1965 -- Appendixes -- A: Example of a Literacy Test for Registering to Vote -- B: Excerpt from President Lyndon B. Johnson's Special Message to the Congress: "The American Promise" -- C: Dr. King's Six Principles of Nonviolence Related to Selma -- D: Life Dates of Some Persons Referenced in the Book.

Personal Subject
: 
LaFayette, Bernard, Jr

Conference Subject
: 
Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.)

Subject Term
: 
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Selma -- History -- 20th century.
 
African Americans -- Suffrage -- Alabama -- Selma -- History -- 20th century.
 
African American civil rights workers -- Biography.

Geographic Term
: 
Selma (Ala.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
 
United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects.

Added Author
: 
Johnson, Kathryn Lee, 1951-


LibraryCall NumberStatus
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)323.092 LAFNonfiction Collection