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Witness to the truth : my struggle for human rights in Louisiana /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scott, John Henry, 1901-1980
Other Authors: Brown, Cleo Scott, 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2003]
Subjects:
Scott, John Henry, > 1901-1980.
African American civil rights workers > Louisiana > Biography.
Civil rights workers > Louisiana > Biography.
Baptists > Louisiana > Clergy > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights > Louisiana > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Louisiana > History > 20th century.
Louisiana > Race relations.
East Carroll Parish (La.) > Race relations.
East Carroll Parish (La.) > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • The beginning
  • Grandfather
  • A different kind of place
  • Rabbits, possum, and coon brains
  • A matter of respect
  • Running when you can't hide
  • An awakening
  • New Deal/bad deal
  • Life after Transylvania
  • Am I not a citizen too?
  • Worse than you can imagine
  • A glimmer of hope
  • All of one accord
  • Victory and defeat
  • A cross for every voter
  • Creative solutions to the Negro problem
  • A cause worth dying for
  • Gross injustice
  • Trouble on every hand
  • One hundred years
  • Deliverance
  • Our eyes to the future.