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Children of the Movement: The Sons and Daughters of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, George Wallace, Andrew Young, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, James Chaney, Elaine Brown, and Others Reveal How the Civil Rights Movement T
John Blake
Hardcover. Lawrence Hill Books 2004-06.
ISBN 9781556525377
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Profiling 24 of the adult children of the most recognisable figures in the
civil rights movement, this book collects the intimate, moving stories of
families who were pulled apart by the horrors of the struggle or brought
together by their efforts to change America. The whole range of players is
covered, from the children of leading figures like Martin Luther King Jr and
martyrs like James Earl Chaney to segregationists like George Wallace and Black
Panther leaders like Elaine Brown. The essays reveal that some children are
more pessimistic than their parents, whose idealism they saw destroyed by the
struggle, while others are still trying to change the world. Included are such
inspiring stories as the daughter of a notoriously racist Southern governor who
finds her calling as a teacher in an all-black inner-city school and the
daughter of a famous martyr who unexpectedly meets her mother's killer. From
the first activists killed by racist Southerners to the current global justice
protestors carrying on the work of their parents, these profiles offer a look
behind the public face of the triumphant civil rights movement and show the
individual lives it changed in surprising ways. Profiling 24 of the adult children of the most recognisable figures in the
civil rights movement, this title collects the intimate, moving stories of
families who were pulled apart by the horrors of the struggle or brought
together by their efforts to change America.
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