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Children of the movement the sons and daughters of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, George Wallace, Andrew Young, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, James Chaney, Elaine Brown, and others reveal how the civil rights movement tested and transformed their families Cover Image

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Children of the movement the sons and daughters of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, George Wallace, Andrew Young, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, James Chaney, Elaine Brown, and others reveal how the civil rights movement tested and transformed their families

Summary: Profiling 24 of the adult children of the most recognisable figures in the civil rights movement, this title collects the intimate, moving stories of families who were pulled apart by the horrors of the struggle or brought together by their efforts to change America.

Record details

ISBN: 9781569765920 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1569765928 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1556525370
ISBN: 9781556525377
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Chicago : Lawrence Hill Books, ©2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Formatted Contents Note:	Casualties of War -- Chevara Orrin and Bacardi Jackson, daughters of Reverend James Bevel, a Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) leader and member of Martin Luther King Jr.'s inner circle -- Chaka Forman, son of James Forman Sr., former executive director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) -- Mary Brown, daughter of James Zwerg, a Freedom Rider -- Maisha Moses, daughter of Bob Moses, a SNCC leader and founder of the Algebra Project -- The Next Generation -- Ralph David Abernathy III, son of Ralph David Abernathy Sr., cofounder of the SCLC and a confidant of Reverend King -- Michael Julian Bond, son of Julian Bond, a leader in the SNCC and the NAACP -- James Forman Jr., son of James Forman Sr., former executive director of the SNCC -- Julie Guyot, daughter of Lawrence Guyot Sr., a SNCC field secretary -- Andrew "Bo" Young III, son of Andrew Young, a SCLC leader and member of Reverend King's inner circle -- Children of the Icons -- Martin Luther King III, son of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. -- Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X -- Children of the Segregationist Leaders -- Peggy Wallace Kennedy, daughter of former Alabama Governor George Wallace -- Ouida Barnett Atkins, daughter of former Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett Sr. -- Stephen Smitherman, son of former Selma mayor Joe Smitherman -- Children of Black Power -- Bokar Ture, son of Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), a SNCC and Black Panther Party leader -- Ericka Abram, daughter of Elaine Brown, former chairwoman of the Black Panther Party -- Warith Deen Muhammad, son of Elijah Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam -- Children of the Martyrs -- Penny Liuzzo Herrington, daughter of Viola Liuzzo, who was killed during the Selma campaign -- Ben Chaney and Angela Lewis, brother and daughter of James Earl Chaney, one of three civil rights workers killed during Mississippi Freedom Summer -- Anne Reeb, daughter of Reverend James Reeb, who was killed in Selma -- The New Radicals: From Selma to Seattle -- Andrew "Drew" Dellinger, son of Walter Dellinger, a civil rights activist and constitutional law scholar -- Naomi Klein, daughter of Bonnie Sherr Klein, a former member of the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE), and Michael Klein, an antiwar demonstrator -- Timi Gerson, daughter of Bill Gerson, a leader in the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.