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

Author

Blake, John

Publisher

Lawrence Hill Books

Publication Date

c2004

Language

English

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. 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

2. 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

3. Children of the Icons

Martin Luther King III, son of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

Ilyasah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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)

Index

Subjects

African American civil rights workers
African American civil rights workers -- Biography
African American families
African Americans
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
Biographie
Biographies
Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political
Bürgerrechtsbewegung
Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Civil rights workers
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography
Daughters
Daughters -- United States -- Biography
Electronic books
Families
Families -- United States
Family
Family -- United States
Girls
Girls -- United States -- Biography
HISTORY
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th century
Human Rights
Political
Political Freedom & Security
POLITICAL SCIENCE
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights
Race relations
Schwärze
Sons
Sons -- United States -- Biography
Southern States -- Race relations
United States -- Race relations
USA

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9781556525377
9781569765920

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