Down to the crossroads : civil rights, Black power, and the Meredith march against fear

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Down to the crossroads : civil rights, Black power, and the Meredith march against fear

Title remainder

civil rights, Black power, and the Meredith march against fear

Statement of responsibility

Aram Goudsouzian

Creator

• Goudsouzian, Aram

Author

• Goudsouzian, Aram

Subject

• African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography
• African American college students
• African American college students -- Mississippi -- Biography
• African Americans -- Civil rights
• African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
• Biography
• Black power
• Black power -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
• Civil rights demonstrations
• Civil rights demonstrations -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
• Civil rights workers
• Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- Biography
• HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
• 1900-1999
• Meredith, James, 1933-
• Meredith, James, 1933-
• Mississippi
• Mississippi -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security | Civil Rights
• Race relations
• Racism
• Racism -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
• Voter registration
• Voter registration -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
• History
• African American civil rights workers

Genre

• History
• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"The engrossing story of a march that became the key turning point in the history of the civil rights movement. On June 5, 1966, the civil rights hero James Meredith left Memphis, Tennessee, on foot. Setting off toward Jackson, Mississippi, he hoped his march would promote Black voter registration and defy racism. The next day, he was shot by a mysterious white man and transferred to a hospital. What followed was one of the key dramas of the civil rights era. When the leading figures of the civil rights movement flew to Mississippi to carry on Meredith's effort, they found themselves confronting Southern law enforcement officials, local activists, and one another. In the subsequent three weeks, Martin Luther King Jr. narrowly escaped a mob attack, protesters were teargassed by state police, Lyndon Johnson refused federal intervention, and the young charismatic activist Stokely Carmichael first led the chant that would define the next phase of the civil rights era: Black Power. Aram Goudsouzian's Down to the Crossroads is the story of the last great march of the civil rights era and the first great showdown of the turbulent years that followed. Tracking rural demonstrators' courage and impassioned debates among movement leaders, Goudsouzian reveals the complex legacy of an event that would both integrate African Americans into the political system and inspire an era of bolder protests against it. Full of drama and historical resonance, this book is civil rights history at its best"--

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Provided by publisher

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

323.1196/07307620904

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

E185.93.M6

LC item number

G68 2014

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography