Another Sojourner Looking for Truth: My Journey from Civil Rights to Black Power and Beyond Millicent E. Brown
Another Sojourner Looking for Truth: My Journey from Civil Rights to Black Power and Beyond
- Udgaver
2
- Sprog
- Engelsk
- Format
- Kategori
Biografier
"Vivid testimony from an energetic activist."—Kirkus Reviews
Memories and insights of a lifetime fighting for Black freedom and social justice
Millicent E. Brown's family home at 270 Ashley Avenue in Charleston, South Carolina, was a center of civil rights activity. There Brown gained intimate knowledge of the struggle for racial justice, and those experiences set her on a life course dedicated to the civil rights struggle. Best known as the named plaintiff in the federal court case that, in 1963, forced the initial desegregation of public schools in South Carolina, her experiences as an activist range across years and well beyond her native state. Another Sojourner Looking for Truth is Brown's insightful reflection on her search for freedom in a nation deeply mired in white supremacist beliefs and overt violence against people of color.
In this revealing memoir, Brown writes about her fears and doubts, as well as the challenges of being a teenager expected to "represent the race" and combat negative stereotypes of African Americans. Readers also gain perspective on the interpersonal aspects of white backlash to civil rights progress and strategic machinations within the movement. Overall, Brown's words will inform, inspire, and challenge everyone to better understand the Black Freedom Struggle and confront its ongoing challenges.
© 2024 University of South Carolina Press (E-bog): 9781643364926
Udgivelsesdato
E-bog: 23. april 2024
Andre udgaver
Andre kan også lide...
- John Lothrop Motley, A Memoir — Complete Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Here's One I Wrote Earlier: Peter Purves: The Autobiography Peter Purves
- Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in the West Riding of Yorkshire Vivien Teasdale
- The Indian: On the Battle-Field and in the Wigwam John Frost
- The Speeches & Autobiographical Writings of Frederick Douglass (Annotated): Enriched Edition. The Heroic Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, My Escape from Slavery, Self-Made Men… Frederick Douglass
- Over a Red Hot Stove: Essays in early cooking technology Ivan Day
- The Collected Works of James Willard Schultz (Annotated): Enriched Edition. Frontier Adventures, Blackfeet Life, and Rocky Mountain Memory in Early Western Literature James Willard Schultz
- The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 1838 James Gillman
- The Red Record: Enriched edition. Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States Ida B. Wells-Barnett
- The History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- The Story of a Confederate Boy in the Civil War (Annotated): Enriched Edition. A Young Virginian's Eyewitness Memoir of Battle, Camp Life, and Southern Wartime Hardship David E. Johnston
- Escape from the Anthill Hubert Butler
- Before the Storm: A Year in the Pribilof Islands, 1941–1942 Fredericka Martin
- Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace: The Texas Ranger and Hunter (Illustrated) (Annotated): Enriched Edition. Ranger Exploits, Frontier Hunting, and Old West Survival Tales John Crittenden Duval
- The Struggle for Black Equality Harvard Sitkoff
- Choice Cookery: Enriched edition. Catherine Owen
- Cotton: From Southern Fields to the Memphis Market William Bearden
- A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia: Enriched edition. 16th-Century Observations of Virginia's Nature, Peoples, and Cultural Encounter Thomas Harriot
- The Autograph Tree William Henry
- The Boy Captives: An Incident of the Indian War of 1695 John Greenleaf Whittier
- Recollections David Christie Murray
- The Emancipation Proclamation Abraham Lincoln
Vælg dit abonnement
Over 1 million titler
Download og nyd titler offline
Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)
Det er nemt at opsige når som helst
Premium
For dig som lytter og læser ofte.
129 kr. /måned
1 konto
100 timer/måned
Eksklusivt indhold hver uge
Fri lytning til podcasts
Ingen binding
Unlimited
For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.
159 kr. /måned
1 konto
Ubegrænset timer
Eksklusivt indhold hver uge
Fri lytning til podcasts
Ingen binding
Family
For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.
Fra 179 kr. /måned
2-6 konti
100 timer/måned pr. konto
Fri lytning til podcasts
Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto
Ingen binding
Dig + 1 familiemedlem
2 konti179 kr. /måned
Flex
For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.
89 kr. /måned
1 konto
20 timer/måned
Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer
Eksklusivt indhold hver uge
Fri lytning til podcasts
Ingen binding
Har du en rabatkode?
Indtast koden her
