My soul looks back in wonder : voices of the civil rights experience /
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New York :
AARP/Sterling,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the soul of change
- section 1. The weight. I am a man / Jesse Epps
- A dream is a good place to start / Endesha Holland
- King of the blues / B.B. King
- Twisted steel and sex appeal / Sputnik Monroe
- Gentleman of the press / Vernon Jarrett
- Skin dive / Dr. Sammy Lee
- American Gandhi / James Lawson
- The birth of Elvis / Jim Dickinson
- The jump-off point / Jerome Smith
- "Like little tortures each day" / Carol Swann-Daniels
- section 2. We shall not be moved. A blinding flash opened our eyes / Carolyn McKinstry
- Justice never sleeps / William Baxley
- The veil of amnesia / Diane McWhorter
- Heaven can wait / Joseph Lowery
- Cracking the system / Raylawni Branch
- Louisiana moon / Maurice Landrieu
- Wake up, Washington! / Rachelle Horowitz
- The brutal truth / Karl Fleming
- Mother courage / Carolyn Goodman
- Hour of power / Alvin Poussaint
- Love story in black and white / Constancia Romilly
- Hard-wired for freedom / Heather Booth
- Help from on high / Curtis Graves
- At history's elbow / Samuel Kyles
- section 3. The wings of the future. Founding sisters / Susan Brownmiller
- Unprincipled principal / Jose Angel Gutierrez
- Shooting for big fish / Diane Wilson
- Wheels of progress / Michelle Steger
- Threads in the civil rights quilt / Barney Frank
- Rewriting the lies / Suzan Harjo
- The Latino underground railroad / John Fife
- A more perfect union / Tawanda Murray
- A living hope / Eugene Rivers
- Afterword / Marion Wright Edelman.