Voices in Our Blood - Jon Meacham, Maya Angelou, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker & James Baldwin
By Jon Meacham, Maya Angelou, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker & James Baldwin
Release Date: 2001-01-09
Genre: U.S. History
An unprecedented portrait of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, told through voices that resonate with passion and strengthāincluding Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and John Lewis
āJon Meacham . . . has done about the best job of anthologizing the movement that Iāve ever seen.āāTom Wicker, Mother Jones
Editor and Pulitzer Prizeāwinning author Jon Meacham has chosen pieces by journalists, novelists, historians, and artists, bringing together a wide range of perspectives and experiences. The result is a literary anthology of important and artful interpretations of the movementās spirit and struggle.
Maya Angelou takes us on a poignant journey back to her childhood in the Arkansas of the 1930s. On the front page of The New York Times, James Reston marks the movementās apex as he describes what it was like to watch Martin Luther King, Jr., deliver his heralded āI Have a Dreamā speech in real time. Alice Walker takes up the movementās progress a decade later in her article āChoosing to Stay at Home: Ten Years After the March on Washington.ā And John Lewis chronicles the unimaginable courage of the ordinary African Americans who challenged the prevailing order, paid for it in blood and tears, and justly triumphed.
Voices in Our Blood is a compelling look at the movement as it actually happened, from the days leading up to World War II to the anxieties and ambiguities of this new century. The story of race in America is a never-ending one, and Voices in Our Blood tells us how we got this farāand how far we still have to go to reach the Promised Land.
This powerful anthology contains works from:
Maya Angelou ā¢ Russell Baker ā¢ James Baldwin ā¢ Taylor Branch ā¢ Hodding Carter ā¢ Ellis Cose ā¢ Stanley Crouch ā¢ Ralph Ellison ā¢ William Faulkner ā¢ Marshall Frady ā¢ Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ā¢ Peter Goldman ā¢ David Halberstam ā¢ Alex Haley ā¢ Elizabeth Hardwick ā¢ Charlayne Hunter-Gault ā¢ Murray Kempton ā¢ John Lewis ā¢ Louis E. Lomax ā¢ Benjamin E. Mays ā¢ Willie Morris ā¢ Flannery OāConnor ā¢ Walker Percy ā¢ Howell Raines ā¢ James Reston ā¢ Carl T. Rowan ā¢ John Steinbeck ā¢ William Styron ā¢ Calvin Trillin ā¢ Alice Walker ā¢ Robert Penn Warren ā¢ Pat Watters ā¢ Bernard Weinraub ā¢ Eudora Welty ā¢ Rebecca West ā¢ E. B. White ā¢ Gary Wills ā¢ Tom Wolfe ā¢ Richard Wright
Voices in Our Blood - Jon Meacham, Maya Angelou, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker & James Baldwin
By Jon Meacham, Maya Angelou, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker & James Baldwin
Release Date: 2001-01-09
Genre: U.S. History
