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Author Dennis, David J., Jr., author.

Title The movement made us : a father, a son, and the legacy of a freedom ride / David J. Dennis Jr., in collaboration with David J. Dennis Sr.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Harper an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
©2022

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Edition First edition.
Description vi, 280 pages ; 24 cm
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Contents Prologue: Us -- Dillard -- Jail -- Dads and fathers -- Freedom rides -- God and fear -- Letter 1 -- Shreveport -- American terrorism -- Baton Rouge -- War in Mississippi -- Letter 2 -- Marvin, Mattie, and Medgar -- A weekend in Jackson -- Missing -- Vote -- James, Mickey, and Andrew -- Letter 3 -- Search -- Even in Harlem -- The eulogy -- Letter 4 -- Democracy -- Epilogue: Us redux.
Summary "A dynamic family exchange that pivots between the voices of a father and son, The Movement Made Us is a unique work of oral history and memoir, chronicling the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter. David Dennis Sr, a core architect of the movement, speaks out for the first time, swapping recollections both harrowing and joyful with David Jr, a journalist working on the front lines of change today. Taken together, their stories paint a critical portrait of America, casting one nation's image through the lens of two individual Black men and their unique relationship. Playful and searching, anxious and restorative, fearless and driving, this intimate memoir features scenes from across David Sr's life, as he becomes involved in the movement, tries to move beyond it, and ultimately returns to it to find final solace and new sense of self--revealing a survivor who travels eternally with a cabal of ghosts. A crucial addition to Civil Rights history, The Movement Made Us is the story of a nation reckoning with change and the hopes, struggles, setbacks, and triumphs of modern Black life. This is it: the extant chronicle of why we live, why we move, and for what we are made"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Dennis, David J., Sr.
Dennis, David J., Jr.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Personal narratives.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History.
Civil rights movements -- United States.
Freedom Rides, 1961 -- Personal narratives.
African Americans -- United States -- Social conditions -- History.
African American men -- United States -- Social conditions.
African American men -- United States -- Social conditions -- History.
African Americans -- United States -- Social conditions.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.
United States -- Race relations.
African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
Fathers and sons.
African American civil rights workers. (OCoLC)fst00799093
African American men -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799254
African Americans -- Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00799575
African Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799698
Civil rights movements. (OCoLC)fst00862708
Fathers and sons. (OCoLC)fst00921899
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Freedom Rides (1961) (OCoLC)fst01743519
Chronological Term 1961
Genre/Form Biography.
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Personal narratives. (OCoLC)fst01423843
Autobiographies.
Personal narratives.
Biographies.
Added Author Dennis, David J., Sr., author.
ISBN 9780063011427 (hardcover)
0063011425 (hardcover)

 
    
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