Foot Soldiers for Democracy : The Men, Women, and Children of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement

Huntley, Horace (EDT)/ McKerley, John W. (EDT)/ Kelley, Robin D. G. (INT)

University of Illinois Press（2009/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 264 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780252076688
• DDC分類 323.17309046

Full Description

Drawn from the rich archives of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, this collection brings together twenty-nine oral histories from people of varying ages and occupations who participated in civil rights activism at the grassroots level. These highly personal narratives convey the real sense of fear and the risk of bodily danger people had to overcome in order to become the movement's foot soldiers. The stories offer testimony as to how policing was carried out when there were no cameras, how economic terrorism was used against activists, how experiences of the movement differed depending on gender, and how youth participation was fundamental to the cause. Participants in the struggle ranged from teachers, students of all ages, and domestic workers to elderly women and men, war veterans, and a Black Panther leader. This volume demonstrates the complexity and diversity of the spirit of resistance at a formative moment in American history.

Contents

Preface   . . . vii
Acknowledgments   . . . xii
Introduction
Foot Soldiers for Democracy, by Robin D. G. Kelley   . . . xiii
Look for Them in the Whirlwind, by Rose Freeman Massey   . . . xviii
List of Abbreviations   . . . xxv
Chronology of Events from April and May 1963   . . . xxvi
Illustrations   . . . xxxiii

Emma Smith Young   . . . 1
Eva Lou Billingsley Russell   . . . 10
Jimmie Lucille Spencer Hooks   . . . 17
Nims E. Gay   . . . 26
James Armstrong   . . . 35
Joe Hendricks   . . . 46
James Summerville   . . . 53
Henry M. Goodgame Sr.   . . . 57
Joe N. Dickson   . . . 63
Johnnie McKinstry Summerville   . . . 78
Jonathan McPherson   . . . 82
LaVerne Revis Martin   . . . 88
Paul Littlejohn   . . . 93
Carlton Reese   . . . 97
Elizabeth Fitts   . . . 106
James Roberson   . . . 111
Annetta Streeter Gary   . . . 115
James Ware and Melvin Ware   . . . 122
Willie A. Casey   . . . 126
James W, Stewart   . . . 132
Gwendolyn Sanders Gamble   . . . 142
Carolyn Maull McKinstry   . . . 150
Carl Grace   . . . 161
Malcolm Hooks   . . . 169
Miriam Taylor McClendon   . . . 174
Shirley Smith Miller   . . . 182
Washington Booker III   . . . 187
Carrie Delores Hamilton Lock   . . . 200
Audrey Faye Hendricks   . . . 208
Epilogue   . . . 213

Index   . . . 217