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Résumé : A Past That Won’t Rest: Images of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi collects never-before-published photographs taken by Jim Lucas (1944–1980), an exceptional documentary photographer. His black and white images, taken during 1964 through 1968, depict events from the civil rights movement including the search for the missing civil rights workers in Neshoba County, the Meredith March Against Fear, Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s visit to the Mississippi Delta, and more. The photographs exemplify Lucas’s technical skill and reveal the essential truth in his subjects and the circumstances surrounding them. Lucas had a gift for telling a visual story, an instinctive eye for framing his shots, and a keen human sensibility as a photojournalist. A college student in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, he was on his way to becoming a professional photojournalist when Freedom Summer exploded. Lucas found himself in the middle of events that would command the attention of the whole world. He cultivated his contacts and honed his craft behind the camera as a stringer for Time and Life magazines as well as the Associated Press. Lucas tragically lost his life in a car accident in 1980, but his photographs have survived and preserve a powerful visual legacy for Mississippi. Over one hundred gorgeously sharp photographs are paired with definitive essays by scholars of the events depicted, thereby adding insight and historical context to the book. Charles L. Overby, a fellow Jacksonian and young journalist at the time, provides a foreword about growing up in that tumultuous era. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : George I. Sánchez was a reformer, activist, and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the "Mexican American Generation" (1930–1960). A professor of education at the University of Texas from the beginning of World War II until the early 1970s, Sánchez was an outspoken proponent of integration and assimilation. He spent his life combating racial prejudice while working with such organizations as the ACLU and LULAC in the fight to improve educational and political opportunities for Mexican Americans. Yet his fervor was not always appreciated by those for whom he advocated, and some of his more unpopular stands made him a polarizing figure within the Latino community. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : This landmark two-volume anthology chronicles more than thirty tumultuous years in the African American struggle for freedom and equal rights. Here, in brilliant and inspiring dispatches from some of the finest reporters in the history of American journalism, is a panoramic portrait of the fight to overthrow segregation in the United States. Nearly 200 newspaper and magazine reports, book excerpts, and features by 151 writers—David Halberstam, Carl Rowan, Robert Penn Warren, Gordon Parks, Ralph Ellison, and Anne Moody among them—provide vivid firsthand accounts of all the revolutionary events: the rising activism of the 1940s; the Brown decision; the Montgomery bus boycott; Little Rock; the sit-in movement and Freedom Rides; Birmingham, the March on Washington (August 28, 1963), Freedom Summer, and Selma; and the emergence of “Black Power.” - Note de l'éditeur Penguin

Résumé : Dans ce recueil d'articles initialement parus dans la revue L'Histoire, l'auteur évoque l'histoire des Noirs américains, marquée au fer rouge par l'esclavage, la ségrégation et les violences raciales. Mais cette histoire mouvementée est aussi celle des résistances, des victoires acquises de haute lutte et des cultures artistiques d'une grande richesse. ©Electre 2021

Résumé : Between 1940 and 1975, Mexican Americans and African Americans in Texas fought a number of battles in court, at the ballot box, in schools, and on the streets to eliminate segregation and state-imposed racism. Although both groups engaged in civil rights struggles as victims of similar forms of racism and discrimination, they were rarely unified. In Fighting Their Own Battles, Brian Behnken explores the cultural dissimilarities, geographical distance, class tensions, and organizational differences that all worked to separate Mexican Americans and blacks. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : Rethinking the Chicano Movement provides anastute and accessible introduction to this vitalgrassroots movement. Bringing together differentfields of research, this comprehensive yet concisenarrative considers the Chicano Movement as anational, not just regional, phenomenon, and places.

Résumé : "Based on a four-part PBS documentary, this excellent history of the Mexican-American civil rights movement examines both individuals and issues which formed the movement from 1965-75, providing an important history of affirmative action efforts and works. From the rise of Chicano nationalism to struggles for various reforms, this is an involving study essential for any comprehensive collection on ethnic history." - Midwest Book Review

Résumé : L'auteur relate un événement de la fin des années 1950. Il évoque comment Elizabeth Eckford, jeune adolescente noire de 15 ans, et huit camarades ont dû faire face à une foule en colère et à l'armée parce qu'ils étaient inscrits au lycée blanc de la ville de Little Rock, dans l'Arkansas. T. Snégaroff a rencontré plusieurs de ces lycéens et raconte leur lutte pour l'intégration raciale. ©Electre 2018

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