DescriptionMy great-grandfather's name was Ozwell Mitchell and he played a major role in the Civil Rights Movement throughout the late '50s and early '60s. I'm seeking information about my great-grandfather because of the simple fact, you know, he died two weeks before I was born and I never really got to know him personally. Teenage Diaries producer Joe Richman gives teenagers tape recorders to document their lives. When 18-year-old Randy Cooper was asked to document his life on a farm in western Mississippi, 3 miles south of the town of Tchula, he decided he wanted to research the Civil Rights Movement in his county. What he learned led him back to his great-grandfather - civil rights leader Ozwell Mitchell. This is Randy's story as originally heard on National Public Radio's All Things Considered .
DescriptionWinner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. David J. Garrow had unrestricted access to Martin Luther King's personal papers, to thousands of pages of newly released FBI documents and more than 700 interviews with King's closest friends and enemies. Garrow traces King's transformation from the young pastor of a modest church into the foremost spokesperson of the civil rights movement. The book's unifying theme is King's growing awareness of the symbolic meaning of the cross as his sense of mission deepened and matured into acceptance of a life that would end by demanding the ultimate sacrifice. This is a powerful portrait of a man at the epicenter of one of the most dramatic periods in our history.
DescriptionIn Pillar of Fire, the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, Parting the Waters, won the Pulitzer Prize for history. It is a monumental chr…
DescriptionMeet Harry S. Truman, Joe McCarthy, Ike, JFK, LBJ, Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, Elvis Presley, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Cesar Chavez, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. Full coverage of everything, including President Clinton's impeachment trial.
DescriptionThis audio adaptation focuses primarily on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the key moments that defined his rise to the forefront of the civil rights movement. From Rosa Parks' monumental arrest in Montgomery to King's imprisonment in Birmingham and his triumphant march on Washington, Taylor Branch provides an unsurpassed portrait of King's rise to greatness. He illuminates the stunning courage and private conflict, the deals, maneuvers, betrayals, and rivalries that determined history behind closed doors, at boycotts and sit-ins, on bloody freedom rides, and through siege and murder.
