Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story - Brossura

Evers, Charles; Szanton, Andrew

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ISBN 10: 1620456931 ISBN 13: 9781620456934

Casa editrice: Turner Pub Co, 1998

Riassunto

A moving and dramatic coming-of-age memoir of Charles Evers, one of the most colorful civil rights pioneers and brother of Medgar Evers, slain hero of the Movement. Evers led a biracial coalition which unseated an all-white Mississippi delegation at the 1968 Democratic Convention and was the first African American to run for governor of Mississippi and to be elected mayor in that state since reconstruction. His story is riveting and, working with a gifted collaborator, he has created a strong sense of time and place. Reveals new information about the Kennedys, especially Bobby who was a very close friend, and offers an up close perspective on Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders.

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L'autore:

CHARLES EVERS lives in Fayette, Mississippi, where he served as mayor for twenty-five years. ANDREW SZANTON is a former oral historian at the Smithsonian Institution. His first book was Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

""Have No Fear reminds us what it meant to live under a system where segregation was important enough to kill for and where being treated with dignity and respect was a whites-only entitlement."" --The New York Times Book Review

""A gutsy, American patriot and treasure . . . an important slice of American history.""--Dan Rather

""Charles Evers has given us one of the most extraordinary memoirs about race in America that I know. This holy sinner of the civil rights era, who kept company with mobsters, bootleggers, call girls, Kings, Kennedys, and Rockefellers has produced, with Andrew Szanton, a salient one-man's history of Mississippi and the United States before and after Brown v. Board of Education. The fascinating interplay of racial nihilism and political sagacity is reminiscent of the early Malcolm X and the mature Frederick Douglass."" --David Levering Lewis

""Truly spellbinding . . . relives the fear, desperation, and confrontation that marked the civil rights struggle."" --The seattle times

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• Editore: Turner Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1620456931
• ISBN 13: 9781620456934
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 333