Books written by Jason Sokol

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  There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975

  A history of race and class in diverse areas in the South explores the experiences and attitudes of white Southerners during the civil rights era, as their relationships with blacks were changed forever. Reprint.

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  The Heavens Might Crack: The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

  This bank porter began to appreciate King more than he ever had during King's life. As the airwaves and streets hummed with talk of King's career, the porter developed a deeper understanding of his actions and achievements.

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  There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975

  Alabama state senator Roland Cooper was one who denied that possibility. Wlien asked the meaning ofthe march, Cooper commented, "Don't mean nothin' at all. ]es' take a look at them. They jes' a pack of coons." The changes would not be ...

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  All Eyes are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn

  Donald Cooper was in the car with Turks. “They were shaking the car,” Cooper recalled, “throwing garbage at it and breaking the windows.” Cooper fled on foot, as did Dennis Dixon. Members of the mob pulled Willie Turks out of the car ...

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  The Heavens Might Crack: The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr

  In The Heavens Might Crack, historian Jason Sokol traces the diverse responses, both in America and throughout the world, to King's death.

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  There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights, 1945-1975

  While the landmarks of the civil rights movement have become indelible parts of our collective memory, few have written about what life was like for white southerners who lived through...