Ron S. (Triker) reviewed Voices of Freedom : An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s on + 7 more book reviews
Takes one back to the day when drinking fountains were signed "white" and "colored." Not always comfortable, easy reading, but worthwhile, especially for those who did not live through Brown v. Board of Education and the years following in "real time."
Joshua D. (mercinary) reviewed Voices of Freedom : An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s on + 29 more book reviews
The following is an excerpt from the back cover of the book:
"Marches and murderers, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcomn X, JFK and LBJ...from the bus boycott in Montgomery to busing in Boston, from the marches on Selma to the riots in Miami, Voices of Freedom illuminates the long, impassioned, sometimes painful and sometimes joyful struggle for a truly democratic society that continues today."
"Marches and murderers, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcomn X, JFK and LBJ...from the bus boycott in Montgomery to busing in Boston, from the marches on Selma to the riots in Miami, Voices of Freedom illuminates the long, impassioned, sometimes painful and sometimes joyful struggle for a truly democratic society that continues today."
