Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 230 pages, [8] pages of plates)
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illustrations, portraits
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
081315698X
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0813116740
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9780813156989
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9780813116747
Inhalt:
In The Rest of the Dream, Lyman Johnson, grassroots civil rights leader, tells his own story. All four of Johnson's grandparents were slaves in Tennessee. Yet his father was a college graduate, principal of a black school, and the inspiration for his son's love of justice. Lyman Johnson was born in 1906 during the darkest days of segregation. He learned from his father not to sit in the ""crow's nest"" reserved for blacks in his hometown movie theater. This refusal to accept second-class citizenship became a guiding principle in Johnson's life. Johnson was almost forty-three when he won admis
Inhalt:
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 2340 Muhammad Ali Boulevard; Dark Days in Columbia; On the Road to Higher Education; Way Up North in Louisville; An Iconoclast in the Classroom; Black & White Niggers; Lifting Bales & Other Vocations; Jim Crow Days; Lunch Counters & Flaming Crosses; Black Heroes; Blacks at the Ballot Box; Uncle Tom & George Wallace; The Battle's Not Over; All Colors Are Beautiful; Musings of a Militant Pacifist; The Religion of a Doubting Thomas; The Rest of the Dream; Index
Anmerkung:
Includes index
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Oral autobiography based on interviews from 1979 to 1987
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Johnson, Lyman T., 1906-1997 Rest of the dream Lexington, Ky : University Press of Kentucky, ©1988
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Politologie
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