Down to Now: Reflections on the Southern Civil Rights Movement - Couverture souple

Watters, Pat

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 082033944X ISBN 13 : 9780820339443

Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 2012

Synopsis

Part history and part meditation, Down to Now is a southern journalist’s intensely personal account of the civil rights movement in the South during the 1960s. As a reporter for the Atlanta Journal- Constitution and then as a writer for the Southern Regional Council, Pat Watters followed the movement from the early days of sit-ins, marches, and freedom rides through the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and the Poor People’s Campaign in the summer of 1968. First published in 1971 and written mostly from the author’s own recollections, tapes, and notes, the book blends detailed reportage of the dramatic events with insightful commentary on what the movement meant and why it declined. Eloquent and compassionate, Down to Now is, in Watter’s words, “a book about the movement by a white Southerner who did not participate in the movement—but whose life was essentially changed by it.”

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

PAT WATTERS (1927-1999) had a long career as a reporter, after which he taught journalism at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. He is the author of numerous books including Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Arrival of Negroes in Southern Politics and The South and the Nation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Georgia Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 082033944X
• ISBN 13: 9780820339443
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 450
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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