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“I recommend it for the fascinating testimonies of leaders that forged the Civil Rights Movement. Sadly, the interviewer, Robert Penn Warren, asked a lot of loaded questions focused on negative aspects of the movement. Still, the people interviewed gave brilliant answers to bad questions. I especially enjoyed the way Malcolm X's dismantles Warren's loaded takes. Kenneth B. Clark's interview was also compelling and thought-provoking.”
“This is a book that can be read cover to cover or can be read in sections, picking and choosing by the particular civil rights' activist's story you are interested in reading. It is a new, "inside" look at the lives of some historic figures within the Civil Rights Movement in America.
I especially loved the insights and life of James Baldwin. He is of course, more in the spotlight recently, thanks to the film adaptation of his novel "If Beale Street Could Talk" as shown by Barry Jenkins brilliance. I loved feeling that this background insight into how he felt about growing up and into the radical shift in thinking about race in America during his lifetime. He retreated to France for a large portion of his life but did feel the drive to be involved in this fight as well. At his funeral, Toni Morrison was quoted as saying, "You made American English honest - genuinely international." I find Baldwin to be a fascinating author of the times, being both an African American man and openly gay as well. A truly unique combination at the time.
The timeline of this compilation is well done. It is incredible to remember, or I should say, be reminded that these racially motivated battles were not that long ago. They occurred within many people's lifetimes, or at least a family member's lifetime. And yet we wonder why there is still so much racial injustice, prejudice, racism, etc.? Events such as these need to be generations removed from families before true healing really occurs across the board. It can occur. I pray that it will.
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“An absolutely INCREDIBLE and inspiring read, and a beautiful collection of some of the most amazing speeches to ever come from American soil. Others have used the word "electrifying", and I'm going to use it again. This book needs to be in all libraries, NOW, and in the hands of teachers and professors everywhere. MAKE THIS A PART OF YOUR CURRICULUM.
I really love the cover design, too.
MUCH appreciation to NetGalley for letting me read this in advance in exchange for an honest review. I'm ordering a hard copy today to add to our personal collection.”
About Stephen Drury Smith
is the executive editor and host of APM Reports®, the acclaimed documentary unit of American Public Media. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
is an award-winning broadcast and podcast journalist, and the founder of Audio Memoir. Ellis holds a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University, where her research compared the way whites and African Americans in Louisiana remember the Jim Crow era. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts. They are both co-editors of
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and (with Mary Marshall Clark and Peter Bearman) of
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