Down to Now Reflections on the Southern Civil Rights Movement

Informationen zum Autor PAT WATTERS (1927-1999) had a long career as a reporter, after which he taught journalism at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette. He is the author of numerous books including Climbing Jacob's Ladder: The Arrival of Negroes in Southern Politics and The South and the Nation . Klappentext Part history and part meditation, Down To Now is a southern journalist's intensely personal account of the civil rights movement in the South during the 1960s. Pat Watters, first as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal and then as a writer for the Southern regional Council, followed the movement from the early days of sit-ins, marches, and freedom rides through the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Poor People's Campaign in the summer of 1968.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Pat Watters
• Editore: The University of Georgia Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 28.02.2012
• Categoria: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva
• EAN: 9780820339443
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3944-3
• Serie: Brown Thrasher Books; Brown Thrasher Books
• Categorie: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; Politics / Current Events; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights