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March To A Promised Land: The Civil Rights Files of a White Reporter 1952
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- 9781933102283
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Capital Books, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1933102284
ISBN-13
9781933102283
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59038913
Product Key Features
Book Title
March to a Promised Land : the Civil Rights Files of a White Reporter, 1952-1968
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Civil Rights, United States / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
15.7 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-027097
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Those of us who lived through the 1960s remember them as incredibly turbulent times. Al Kuettner has written March to a Promised Land: The Civil Rights File of a White Reporter.He was a young, Southern reporter when the civil rights struggle began in 1952, the year he was assigned to cover it by the United Press wire service. As a result, he traveled widely through the nation, meeting and talking with hundreds of people while witnessing the events that transformed American race relations. He knew all the key players, including Martin Luther King, Jr. who he met in 1955. Anyone with a particular interest in this period of our history will find this book to be an interesting eyewitness account., Those of us who lived through the 1960s remember them as incredibly turbulent times. Al Kuettner has written March to a Promised Land: The Civil Rights File of a White Reporter .He was a young, Southern reporter when the civil rights struggle began in 1952, the year he was assigned to cover it by the United Press wire service. As a result, he traveled widely through the nation, meeting and talking with hundreds of people while witnessing the events that transformed American race relations. He knew all the key players, including Martin Luther King, Jr. who he met in 1955. Anyone with a particular interest in this period of our history will find this book to be an interesting eyewitness account., . . . an illuminating yet brief history of the Civil Rights Movement: the strength of the book is that it places concisely in historical context the movement's important events. . . The author claims to have set out to determine if the civil rights battles were "worth it." However, the reader learns soon that Kuettner already knew the answer and if the reader has any doubts of his or her own they are dispelled by this affecting memoir., ". . . an illuminating yet brief history of the Civil Rights Movement: the strength of the book is that it places concisely in historical context the movement's important events. . . The author claims to have set out to determine if the civil rights battles were "worth it." However, the reader learns soon that Kuettner already knew the answer and if the reader has any doubts of his or her own they are dispelled by this affecting memoir."
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
323.1196/07307809045
Table Of Content
Introduction Chapter 1 -1954 Supreme Court Bans Segregated Schools Decision unleashes joy and anger Chapter 2 -1957 Integration Dixie Style, Little Rock, Arkansas "Nigger go home" Chapter 3 - 1961 Passing the Test - Integrating the University of Georgia Escape at midnight Chapter 4 - 1962 The Battle of Ole Miss "It's going to be a long night" Chapter 5 - 1963 University of Alabama Integrates Despite Governor Wallace Federal judge begs for law and order Chapter 6 -1955-1964 Rosa Parks and Her Famous Bus Ride Martin Luther King Jr. launches major civil rights campaign Chapter 7 -1963 Courage vs. Dogs and Dynamite in Birmingham Church bombing kills four black girls Chapter 8 - 1963-1964 Medgar Evers Slain at Doorstep Three civil rights workers also killed in Mississippi Chapter 9 -1963 Lincoln Memorial Echoes with Freedom "I still have a dream." --Martin Luther King Jr., Aug. 28, 1963 Chapter 10 -1963 President Kennedy Assassinated - Nov. 22, 1963 "Let us close the springs of racial poison." --President Johnson Chapter 11 - 1964 Congress Passes the 1964 Civil Rights Act "We must be willing to go to jail." --Martin Luther King Jr. Chapter 12 - 1965 The Selma Story, Part 1 "Let's walk to Montgomery." --A Young Volunteer Chapter 13 - 1965 The Selma Story, Part 2 "The time for waiting is gone."--President Johnson Chapter 14 - 1964-1965 The South Was Not Alone "God damn white man," "Is nothing sacred?" --Signs on New York streets Chapter 15 - 1966 A Black Leader Speaks Out "There is no turning back." --Roy Wilkins Chapter 16 - 1968 King Is Dead, But His Dream Lives On Civil rights leader slain moments after asking for hymn, "Precious Lord, take my hand" Conclusion
Synopsis
A white Southern reporter's eyewitness account of the civil rights revolution he covered, the historic figures he met and interviewed, and the life-changing events he witnessed, In March to a Promised Land, veteran reporter Al Kuettner begins: "You had to walk in the footsteps of these people--black and white--to get some understanding of their deep feelings, their prejudices, the sad deprivation suffered by so many blacks, the fear in whites. You had to walk and talk with them, and that's what I did for 15 years, knowing that this story could not unfold from reading propaganda statements from both sides of the controversy. This was a people story." Al Kuettner was a young, white Southern reporter when the civil rights struggle began in 1952, the year he was assigned to cover it by the wire service United Press. During those years he traveled extensively throughout the U.S., talking with hundreds of people, black and white, witnessing the events that transformed American race relations. In this book, Al, now 93 years old, retraces his steps, reexamining the history he witnessed in the making, and questioning blacks and whites about the legacy of change. While he traces the events he witnessed from the 1952 announcement that the Supreme Court would review Brown vs. Board of Education to the tragic assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968---his vision is informed by the future and by his own determination to present the events honestly., Al Kuettner was a young, white Southern reporter when the civil rights struggle began in 1952, the year he was assigned to cover it by the wire service United Press. During those turbulent years that followed he traveled extensively throughout the U.S., talking with hundreds of people, black and white, witnessing the events that transformed American race relations. Kuettner covered all the key events'the integration of the South?'s public schools and universities; Rosa Parks and her famous bus ride; the great civil rights marches on Washington, D.C. and Montgomery, Alabama; the passage of the landmark Supreme Court rulings and civil rights and voting legislation; the assassinations of Evers, King, and Kennedy. He knew and interviewed all the key players'from Martin Luther King, Jr., whom he first met and interviewed in 1955 as a young preacher dressed in a blue work shirt and denims in the Sunday school room of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church; to John Lewis, now a congressman, who in 1965 was attacked as he led marchers from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.; to Medgar Evers, who paid with his life for his work in the black voter registration campaign. He knew them all. Now in this book, Kuettner retraces his steps, reexamining the history he witnessed in the making, and questioning blacks and whites about the legacy of change. While he traces the events he witnessed, his vision is informed by the future and by his own determination to present the events honestly.This book is dedicated to the UPI reporters and photographers who covered the civil rights story.
LC Classification Number
E185.61.K84 2006
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