A literary anthology of important and artful interpretations of the
civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, past and
present--including pieces by Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison,
Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and John Lewis
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"Jon Meacham . . . has done about the best job of anthologizing the
movement that I've ever seen."--Tom Wicker, Mother Jones**
Editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham has chosen pieces
by journalists, novelists, historians, and artists, bringing together a
wide range of perspectives and experiences. The result is an
unprecedented and powerful portrait of the movement's spirit and
struggle, told through voices that resonate with passion and strength.
Maya Angelou takes us on a poignant journey back to her childhood in the
Arkansas of the 1930s. On the front page of The New York Times, James
Reston marks the movement's apex as he describes what it was like to
watch Martin Luther King, Jr., deliver his heralded "I Have a Dream"
speech in real time. Alice Walker takes up the movement's progress a
decade later in her article "Choosing to Stay at Home: Ten Years After
the March on Washington." And John Lewis chronicles the unimaginable
courage of the ordinary African Americans who challenged the prevailing
order, paid for it in blood and tears, and justly triumphed.
Voices in Our Blood is a compelling look at the movement as it
actually happened, from the days leading up to World War II to the
anxieties and ambiguities of this new century. The story of race in
America is a never-ending one, and Voices in Our Blood tells us how we
got this far--and how far we still have to go to reach the Promised
Land.
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This powerful anthology contains works from:**
Maya Angelou - Russell Baker - James Baldwin - Taylor Branch - Hodding
Carter - Ellis Cose - Stanley Crouch - Ralph Ellison - William
Faulkner - Marshall Frady - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Peter Goldman -
David Halberstam - Alex Haley - Elizabeth Hardwick - Charlayne
Hunter-Gault - Murray Kempton - John Lewis - Louis E. Lomax - Benjamin
E. Mays - Willie Morris - Flannery O'Connor - Walker Percy - Howell
Raines - James Reston - Carl T. Rowan - John Steinbeck - William
Styron - Calvin Trillin - Alice Walker - Robert Penn Warren - Pat
Watters - Bernard Weinraub - Eudora Welty - Rebecca West - E. B. White -
Gary Wills - Tom Wolfe - Richard Wright
