Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement

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W. W. Norton & Company, 1998 - History - 432 pages

"Weary Feet, Rested Souls is a valuable and beautiful road map to a landscape we must not forget."—Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund

Thirty years after the Civil Rights Movement transformed America, Weary Feet, Rested Souls brings the landscape of this compelling period of history back to life. Logging 30,000 miles of research and more than 100 hours of interviews with Civil Rights veterans, Townsend Davis has written both a history of the struggle and an indispensable traveler's guidebook to Civil Rights in the Deep South. Ranging from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s childhood neighborhood to Philadelphia, Mississippi, where three Civil Rights workers were murdered, to Selma and Birmingham and scores of other sites, Weary Feet, Rested Souls is a uniquely inspiring and deeply commemorative guide to the Movement and its heroes.
 

Contents

Common Acronyms
9
Introduction
11
Acknowledgments
17
Alabama
21
Arkansas
133
Georgia
139
Mississippi
191
North Carolina
309
Chronology
381
Civil Rights Laws
385
Map Index
387
The Historical Sites
389
Endnotes
401
Selected Sources
403
Index
420
Back Cover
433

South Carolina
319
Tennessee
343

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About the author (1998)

Townsend Davis is a writer and lawyer living in New York City. His articles have appeared in the New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, and the Charlotte Observer.