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My Soul Is Rested

The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South

The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South

The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South

By Howell Raines

By Howell Raines

By Howell Raines

By Howell Raines

By Howell Raines

By Howell Raines

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    About My Soul Is Rested

    “A superb oral history.” —The Washington Post Book World

    “So touching, so exhilarating…no book for a long time has left me so moved or so happy.” —The New York Times Book Review

    The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence. From the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968, these are the people who fought the epic battle: Rosa Parks, Andrew Young, Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams, Fannie Lou Hamer, and others, both black and white, who participated in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, voter drives, and campaigns for school and university integration.

    Here, too, are voices from the “Down-Home Resistance” that supported George Wallace, Bull Connor, and the “traditions” of the Old South—voices that conjure up the frightening terrain on which the battle was fought. My Soul Is Rested is a powerful document of social and political history, as well as a magnificent tribute to those who made history happen.

    About My Soul Is Rested

    “A superb oral history.” —The Washington Post Book World

    “So touching, so exhilarating…no book for a long time has left me so moved or so happy.” —The New York Times Book Review

    The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence. From the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968, these are the people who fought the epic battle: Rosa Parks, Andrew Young, Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams, Fannie Lou Hamer, and others, both black and white, who participated in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, voter drives, and campaigns for school and university integration.

    Here, too, are voices from the “Down-Home Resistance” that supported George Wallace, Bull Connor, and the “traditions” of the Old South—voices that conjure up the frightening terrain on which the battle was fought. My Soul Is Rested is a powerful document of social and political history, as well as a magnificent tribute to those who made history happen.

    About My Soul Is Rested

    “A superb oral history.” —The Washington Post Book World

    “So touching, so exhilarating…no book for a long time has left me so moved or so happy.” —The New York Times Book Review

    The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence. From the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968, these are the people who fought the epic battle: Rosa Parks, Andrew Young, Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams, Fannie Lou Hamer, and others, both black and white, who participated in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, voter drives, and campaigns for school and university integration.

    Here, too, are voices from the “Down-Home Resistance” that supported George Wallace, Bull Connor, and the “traditions” of the Old South—voices that conjure up the frightening terrain on which the battle was fought. My Soul Is Rested is a powerful document of social and political history, as well as a magnificent tribute to those who made history happen.

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    About Howell Raines

    Before stepping down in 2003, Howell Raines was executive editor of The New York Times. He is the author of Whiskey Man, a novel, and My Soul Is Rested, an oral history of the Civil Rights movement. He was awarded… More about Howell Raines

    About Howell Raines

    Before stepping down in 2003, Howell Raines was executive editor of The New York Times. He is the author of Whiskey Man, a novel, and My Soul Is Rested, an oral history of the Civil Rights movement. He was awarded… More about Howell Raines

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    Before stepping down in 2003, Howell Raines was executive editor of The New York Times. He is the author of Whiskey Man, a novel, and My Soul Is Rested, an oral history of the Civil Rights movement. He was awarded… More about Howell Raines

    Product Details

    Category: Domestic Politics | Essays & Literary Collections

    Paperback | $24.00
    Published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons
    Sep 29, 1983 | 496 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780140067538

    Category: Domestic Politics | Essays & Literary Collections

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons
    Sep 29, 1983 | 496 Pages | ISBN 9780593852415

    Category: Domestic Politics | Essays & Literary Collections | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $25.00
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Mar 11, 2025 | 810 Minutes | ISBN 9798217080564

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    Praise

    “So touching, so exhilirating … no book for a long time has left me so moved or so happy.”
    —Anthony Lewis, The New York Times Book Review

    “Deeply affecting and searingly vivid”
    —Atlanta Journal

    “Remarkable … the realities of our social history are described in a kind of magnificent humaneness.”
    —Chicago Tribune Book World

    Table Of Contents

    Acknowledgments
    A Chronology of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South, 1955-68
    Introduction
    Prelude: James Farmer
    Book One: I. The Beginning
    Montgomery, 1955
    E.D. Nixon
    Rosa L. Parks
    E.D. Nixon
    Bayard Rustin
    Yancey Martin
    T.M. Alexander, Sr.
    Joseph E. Lowery
    Interlude: John Lewis
    II. Black Surprise
    The Student Sit-Ins and the Birth of SNCC
    Franklin McCain
    Julian Bond and Lonnie King
    John Calhoun
    John Lewis
    Julian Bond
    Connie Curry
    III: Freedom Riders
    James Farmer
    Hank Thomas
    JOhn Lewis
    James Farmer
    Interlude: Ruby Hurley
    IV: Alabama
    The Battleground State
    Part One: Birmingham
    Ed Gardner
    Andrew Marrisett
    Abraham Wood
    Fred L. Shuttlesworth
    Sid Smyer
    Ben Allen and Glenn V. Evans
    Chuck Morgan
    Chris McNair

    Part Two: Selma
    Albert Turner
    Willie Bolden
    Albert Turner
    Wilson Baker
    Sheyann Webb
    John Lewis
    Willie Bolden
    Sheyann Webb
    John Lewis
    Julian Bond
    Wilson Baker
    Memories of the March
    Joseph E. Lowery
    Andrew Durgan
    Interlude: Timothy Jenkins and Lonnie King
    V. Mississippi
    SNCC and the Home-Grown Heroes
    Amzie Moore
    Lawrence Guyot
    Charles Cobb
    Fannie Lou Hamer
    Ivanhoe Donaldson
    Hartman Turnbow
    Julian Bond
    Lawrence Guyot
    Ruby Hurley
    Dave Dennis
    Mary Dora Jones
    Harry Bowie
    Marion Barry
    Lawrence Guyot
    Interlude: Dick Gregory
    Book Two: I: The Down-Home Resistance
    Robert Patterson
    John Patterson
    Sol Tepper
    Bobby Shelton
    J.B. Stoner
    II. Higher Education
    Autherine Lucy Foster
    Ben Allen
    Vivian Malone Jones
    Hamilton Holmes
    III. Lawyers and Lawmen
    Nicholas Katzenbach
    Elbert Tuttle
    Arthur Shores
    Herbert Jenkins
    Everette Little
    Laurie Pritchett
    IV. Reporters
    Eugene Patterson
    Richard Valeriani
    Tony Hefferman
    Wendell Hoffman
    Claude Sitton
    Neil Maxwell
    Nelson Benton
    William Bradford Huie
    Interlude
    Roy Harris and Myles Horton
    V. Assorted Rebels
    Nannie Washburn
    Helen Bullard
    Charles R. Sims
    VI. Black Camelot
    Andrew Young
    Dorothy Cotton
    Hosea Williams
    Randolph Blackwell
    Willie Bolden
    Leon Hall
    J.T. Johnson
    Interlude
    Benjamin Mays and Martin Luther King, Sr.
    Recessional
    Ralph David Abernathy
    Index

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