We Shall Not Be Moved: The 1963 Lunch Counter Sit-In Jackson

ISBN-10: 0964712458
ISBN-13: 9780964712454
Series: We Shall Not Be Moved
Pages: 350
Language: English
Published: 1998-12-01
Author: Michael O'Brien

Description

How did a dozen more-or-less ordinary people come to be part of a day that changed history? This exhaustively researched contribution to our understanding of the civil rights movement tells, for the first time, the full story of the harrowing lunch counter sit-in that erupted into violence and led, two weeks later, to the shooting of Medgar Evers. The engaging and powerful narrative explores the hives before and after of individuals like Ann Moody, Joan Trumpauer, John Salter, Rev. Ed King, and Evers, as well as one of the young white men who challenged the demonstrators and the photographer who took the famous picture.