The March against fear : the last great walk of the Civil Rights Movement and the emergence of Black power
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The March against fear : the last great walk of the Civil Rights Movement and the emergence of Black power
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9781426326653
9781426326660
Physical Description:
143 pages : black & white illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Contents:
A tremor -- Wild ideas -- Reactions -- Revived -- Delta bound -- Black power -- Earthquake -- White rage -- Supremacy -- Reunited -- Finale -- Aftershocks.
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1140 L Lexile
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Summary:
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.