{"product_id":"foot-soldiers-for-democracy-9780252076688","title":"Foot Soldiers for Democracy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirsthand accounts from the Civil Rights Movement's frontlines\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The oral histories excerpted here document the rich organizational networks that suffused the community, and the 'sphere of self-organized workers' activity' largely ignored by historians that was key to the movement's tenacity and ultimate successes.\"--\u003ci\u003eAnarcho-Syndicalist Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is a must-read for anyone searching for firsthand knowledge of how hard minorities had to fight for equality in a land of opportunity. It is also a must-read for those seeking to understand minorities' shared experience of never giving up.\"--U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics \u003ci\u003eMonthly Labor Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An excellent text for those seeking a work that offers something besides the standard narrative.\"--\u003ci\u003eSouthern Historian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This volume contains a remarkable cross section of firsthand accounts that will interest scholars of the black freedom struggle, especially those attuned to bottom-up views of black history and generational change.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This outstanding work is an enormous contribution to the literature on the civil rights movement, and it will provide rich material for debate as well as inspiration for years to come.\"--Paul Ortiz, author of \u003ci\u003eEmancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   . . . vii\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments   . . . xii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Foot Soldiers for Democracy, by Robin D. G. Kelley   . . . xiii\u003cbr\u003e Look for Them in the Whirlwind, by Rose Freeman Massey   . . . xviii\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations   . . . xxv\u003cbr\u003e Chronology of Events from April and May 1963   . . . xxvi\u003cbr\u003e Illustrations   . . . xxxiii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Emma Smith Young   . . . 1\u003cbr\u003e Eva Lou Billingsley Russell   . . . 10\u003cbr\u003e Jimmie Lucille Spencer Hooks   . . . 17\u003cbr\u003e Nims E. Gay   . . . 26\u003cbr\u003e James Armstrong   . . . 35\u003cbr\u003e Joe Hendricks   . . . 46\u003cbr\u003e James Summerville   . . . 53\u003cbr\u003e Henry M. Goodgame Sr.   . . . 57\u003cbr\u003e Joe N. Dickson   . . . 63\u003cbr\u003e Johnnie McKinstry Summerville   . . . 78\u003cbr\u003e Jonathan McPherson   . . . 82\u003cbr\u003e LaVerne Revis Martin   . . . 88\u003cbr\u003e Paul Littlejohn   . . . 93\u003cbr\u003e Carlton Reese   . . . 97\u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth Fitts   . . . 106\u003cbr\u003e James Roberson   . . . 111\u003cbr\u003e Annetta Streeter Gary   . . . 115\u003cbr\u003e James Ware and Melvin Ware   . . . 122\u003cbr\u003e Willie A. Casey   . . . 126\u003cbr\u003e James W, Stewart   . . . 132\u003cbr\u003e Gwendolyn Sanders Gamble   . . . 142\u003cbr\u003e Carolyn Maull McKinstry   . . . 150\u003cbr\u003e Carl Grace   . . . 161\u003cbr\u003e Malcolm Hooks   . . . 169\u003cbr\u003e Miriam Taylor McClendon   . . . 174\u003cbr\u003e Shirley Smith Miller   . . . 182\u003cbr\u003e Washington Booker III   . . . 187\u003cbr\u003e Carrie Delores Hamilton Lock   . . . 200\u003cbr\u003e Audrey Faye Hendricks   . . . 208\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue   . . . 213\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index   . . . 217","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400484626775,"sku":"9780252076688","price":19.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252076688.jpg?v=1730470801","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/foot-soldiers-for-democracy-9780252076688","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}