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In Peace and Freedom
Lafayette, Bernard; Johnson, Kathryn Lee
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Paperback. In this electrifying memoir, written with Kathryn Lee Johnson, Bernard LaFayette Jr. shares the inspiring story of his years in Selma. LaFayette was one of the primary organisers of the 1965 Selma voting rights movement and the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, and he relates his experiences of these historic initiatives in close detail. Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 240 pages, 38 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 3JJPK; BM; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 525.
Bernard LaFayette Jr. (b. 1940) was a cofounder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a leader in the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins, a Freedom Rider, an associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the national coordinator of the Poor People's Campaign. At the young age of twenty-two, he assumed the directorship of the Alabama Voter Registration Project in Selma -- a city that had previously been removed from the organization's list due to the dangers of operating there.
In this electrifying memoir, written with Kathryn Lee Johnson, LaFayette shares the ... Read more
Bernard LaFayette Jr. (b. 1940) was a cofounder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a leader in the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins, a Freedom Rider, an associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the national coordinator of the Poor People's Campaign. At the young age of twenty-two, he assumed the directorship of the Alabama Voter Registration Project in Selma -- a city that had previously been removed from the organization's list due to the dangers of operating there.
In this electrifying memoir, written with Kathryn Lee Johnson, LaFayette shares the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813165929
SKU
V9780813165929
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About Lafayette, Bernard; Johnson, Kathryn Lee
Bernard LaFayette Jr. is Distinguished Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Chair of the National Board of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Kathryn Lee Johnson teaches in the School of Education at the University of Rhode Island, USA. She has authored several books for educators on teaching, writing, ... Read more
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