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"An important volume for students and professionals who wish to grasp the basic nature of the Civil Rights Movement and how it changed America in fundamental ways."—Aldon Morris, Northwestern Univ. The Eyes on the Prize Reader brings together the most comprehensive anthology of primary sources available, spanning the entire history of the Civil Rights Movement. "A remarkable collection...Indispensable."—William H. Harris, Texas Southern Univ.
"Seeing through Race" is a boldly original reinterpretation of the
iconic photographs of the black civil rights struggle. Martin A.
Berger's provocative and groundbreaking study shows how the very
pictures credited with arousing white sympathy, and thereby paving
the way for civil rights legislation, actually limited the scope of
racial reform in the 1960s. Berger analyzes many of these famous
images - dogs and fire hoses turned against peaceful black marchers
in Birmingham, tear gas and clubs wielded against voting-rights
marchers in Selma - and argues that because white sympathy was
dependent on photographs of powerless blacks, these unforgettable
pictures undermined efforts to enact - or even imagine - reforms
that threatened to upend the racial balance of power.
"Liberty and Sexuality" is a definitive account of the legal and
political struggles that created the right to privacy and won
constitutional protection for a woman's right to choose abortion.
Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that
established that right, grew out of not only efforts to legalize
abortion but also out of earlier battles against statutes that
criminalized birth control. When the U.S. Supreme Court in 1965, in
Griswold v. Connecticut, voided such a prohibition as an outrageous
intrusion upon marital privacy, it opened a previously unimagined
constitutional door: the opportunity to argue that a woman's access
to a safe, legal abortion was also a fundamental constitutional
right. Garrow's essential history details both the unheralded
contributions of the young lawyers who filed America's first
abortion rights cases and also the inside-the-Supreme Court
deliberations that produced Roe v. Wade. In this updated and
expanded paperback edition, Garrow also traces the post-Roe
evolution of abortion rights battles and the wider struggle for
sexual privacy up through the 25th anniversary of Roe in early
1998.
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, which ignited the civil rights
movement of the 1950s and 1960s, has always been vitally important
in southern and black history. With the publication of this book,
the boycott becomes a milestone in the history of American women as
well.
"This autobiographical account of the creation of the boycott is
the most important document on that highly significant episode
since Martin Luther King's own version, Stride Towards Freedom. I
feel certain that scholars and students will refer to this unique
historical source for generations to come."
--J. Mills Thornton, University of Michigan
"This valuable first-hand account of the historic Montgomery Bus
Boycott, written by an important, behind-the-scenes organizer,
evokes the emotional intensity of the civil rights struggle. It
ought to be required reading for all Americans who value their
freedom and the contribution of black women to our history."
--Coretta Scott King
"A sharply remembered addition to the literature on what has become
an event of mythic proportions, and a sound primer for those
interested in community organizing. The author is scrupulously
honest, modest, and gives unsung heroes much deserved
praise."
--Kirkus
"This fascinating memoir provides new evidence on the origins and
sustaining force of the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-56)."
--Anthony O. Edmonds, Library Journal
"There's no substitute for this intimate memoir; it provides an
immediacy and graphic intensity never before available."
--Marge Frantz, San Jose Mercury News
"This powerful memoir is a milestone in the history of that boycott
and in the American Civil Rights Movement."
--American History Illustrated
"This absorbing study may become a minor classic in the literature
of the Montgomery bus boycott. . . . Garrow correctly states in his
Foreword that this book is the most important participant-observer
account of the Montgomery protest available to students and
scholars of the black freedom movement. . . . This straightforward,
sensitive memoir is must reading for students of the civil rights
movement. It is a powerful commentary on how a woman and the group
she led rose up to throw off an injustice thrust upon them. When Jo
Ann Robinson and other Montgomery women decided no longer to play
the role of contented black Southerners, they gave blacks
everywhere renewed hope, and they helped to create a national
leader who took them closer to the promised land."
--Jimmie L. Franklin, The Alabama Review
"In an absorbing, first-hand narrative, the dignified and
unassuming Robinson focuses on the role of the Women's Political
Council (WPC) and details the WPC's plans to engineer a boycott
months before the heralded arrest of Rosa Parks. . . . The value of
this primary source will endure long after many best-selling,
secondary accounts of national politics during this period have
disappeared."
--Keith D. Miller and Elizabeth Vander Lei, Explorations in Sight
and Sound
"The work of David J. Garrow is more than a day-by-day account of
how the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965 came into being. It is
also a skillful analysis of the dynamics of protest activity and
more particularly of the ways in which successful protesters
deliberately use the mass media to influence uninvolved audiences."
-American Historical Review "A valuable book, because it is a
reminder of both the heroism and the brutality displayed in the
great civil rights crusade." -David Herbert Donald, The New
Republic "One of the most comprehensive studies yet of a single
campaign within the civil-rights movement." -Pat Watters, New York
Times Book Review "An excellent fusion of important theoretical
constructs with careful and thoughtful empirical analysis. A
desirable addition to most college libraries, useful for a variety
of courses....Thoroughly documented. Recommended." -Choice
""My name will survive as long as man survives, because I am
writing the greatest diary that has ever been written. I intend to
surpass Pepys as a diarist.""
When John Frush Knox (1907-1997) wrote these words, he was in the
middle of law school, and his attempt at surpassing Pepys--part
scrapbook, part social commentary, and part recollection--had
already reached 750 pages. His efforts as a chronicler might have
landed in a family attic had he not secured an eminent position
after graduation as law clerk to Justice James C.
McReynolds--arguably one of the most disagreeable justices to sit
on the Supreme Court--during the tumultuous year when President
Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to "pack" the Court with justices who
would approve his New Deal agenda. Knox's memoir instead emerges as
a record of one of the most fascinating periods in American
history.
"The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox"--edited by Dennis J. Hutchinson
and David J. Garrow--offers a candid, at times naive, insider's
view of the showdown between Roosevelt and the Court that took
place in 1937. At the same time, it marvelously portrays a
Washington culture now long gone. Although the new Supreme Court
building had been open for a year by the time Knox joined
McReynolds' staff, most of the justices continued to work from
their homes, each supported by a small staff. Knox, the epitome of
the overzealous and officious young man, after landing what he
believes to be a dream position, continually fears for his job
under the notoriously rude (and nakedly racist) justice. But he
soon develops close relationships with the justice's two black
servants: Harry Parker, the messenger who does "everything but
breathe" for the justice, and Mary Diggs, the maid and cook.
Together, they plot and sidestep around their employer's
idiosyncrasies to keep the household running while history is made
in the Court.
A substantial foreword by Dennis Hutchinson and David Garrow sets
the stage, and a gallery of period photos of Knox, McReynolds, and
other figures of the time gives life to this engaging account,
which like no other recaptures life in Washington, D.C., when it
was still a genteel southern town.
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