{"product_id":"voices-in-our-blood-americas-best-on-the-civil-rights-movement-paperback","title":"Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJon Meacham\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMaya Angelou\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eRalph Ellison\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA literary anthology of important and artful interpretations of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, past and present--including pieces by Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and John Lewis \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jon Meacham . . . has done about the best job of anthologizing the movement that I've ever seen.\"--Tom Wicker, \u003ci\u003eMother Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEditor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham has chosen pieces by journalists, novelists, historians, and artists, bringing together a wide range of perspectives and experiences. The result is an unprecedented and powerful portrait of the movement's spirit and struggle, told through voices that resonate with passion and strength. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaya Angelou takes us on a poignant journey back to her childhood in the Arkansas of the 1930s. On the front page of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, James Reston marks the movement's apex as he describes what it was like to watch Martin Luther King, Jr., deliver his heralded \"I Have a Dream\" speech in real time. Alice Walker takes up the movement's progress a decade later in her article \"Choosing to Stay at Home: Ten Years After the March on Washington.\" 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eVoices in Our Blood\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eVoices in Our Blood\u003c\/i\u003e tells us how we got this far--and how far we still have to go to reach the Promised Land.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis powerful anthology contains works from: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaya Angelou - Russell Baker - James Baldwin - Taylor Branch - Hodding Carter - Ellis Cose - Stanley Crouch - Ralph Ellison - William Faulkner - Marshall Frady - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Peter Goldman - David Halberstam - Alex Haley - Elizabeth Hardwick - Charlayne Hunter-Gault - Murray Kempton - John Lewis - Louis E. Lomax - Benjamin E. Mays - Willie Morris - Flannery O'Connor - Walker Percy - Howell Raines - James Reston - Carl T. Rowan - John Steinbeck - William Styron - Calvin Trillin - Alice Walker - Robert Penn Warren - Pat Watters - Bernard Weinraub - Eudora Welty - Rebecca West - E. B. White - Gary Wills - Tom Wolfe - Richard Wright\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eVoices in Our Blood is a literary anthology of the most important and artful interpretations of the civil rights movement, past and present. It showcases what forty of the nation's best writers -- including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, and Richard Wright -- had to say about the central domestic drama of the American Century. \u003cbr\u003eEditor Jon Meacham has chosen pieces by journalists, novelists, historians, and artists, bringing together a wide range of black and white perspectives and experiences. The result is an unprecedented and powerful portrait of the movement's spirit and struggle, told through voices that resonate with passion and strength. \u003cbr\u003eMaya 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 movement's apex as he describes what it was like to watch Martin Luther King, Jr., deliver his heralded \"I Have a Dream\" speech in real time. Alice Walker takes up the movement's progress a decade later in her article \"\"Choosing to Stay at Home: Ten Years After the March on Washington.\" 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. \u003cbr\u003eVoices 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 far--and how far we still have to go to reach thePromised Land. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJon Meacham\u003c\/b\u003e is a Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian. A contributing writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e and a contributing editor of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, he is the author of \u003ci\u003eHis Truth Is Marching On\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers \u003ci\u003eThe Hope of Glory, The Soul of America, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, American Gospel\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFranklin and Winston\u003c\/i\u003e. Meacham is a distinguished visiting professor and holds the Rogers Chair in the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University. He lives with his family in Nashville, Tennessee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 576\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.18 x 6.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 07, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978455318829,"sku":"9780375758812","price":22.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/Snlwb3RLVG82Ni96by9YNkd6QytuZz09.webp?v=1775805259","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/voices-in-our-blood-americas-best-on-the-civil-rights-movement-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}