Bøger af Mary Stanton

Offers the first narrative history of the American communist movement in the South during the 1930s. Written from the perspective of the district 17 (CPUSA) Reds who worked primarily in Alabama, the book acquaints a new generation with the impact of the Great Depression on postwar black and white, young and old, urban and rural Americans.

Tells the story of Bill Moore, a white mail carrier, and his freedom walk from Chattanooga to Jackson to hand-deliver a plea for racial tolerance to Ross Barnett, the staunchly segregationist governor of Mississippi. Moore kept a journal that detailed his goal. Using it, along with interviews and extensive newspaper and newsreel reports, Mary Stanton documents this phenomenal freedom walk.

From 1936 to 1957, in letters published in Alabama's major daily newspapers, essays, and private correspondence, Juliette Hampton Morgan made some of the most insightful observations on record about Montgomery's racial crises. This title traces the development of Morgan's moral conscience amid details about her childhood and education.

Viola Liuzza was the only white woman honoured at the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. This biography follows Liuzza through her childhood in the south, adult life in Michigan, to the 1965 voting rights march in Selma, Alabama, where she died in a Klan ambush.