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xviii, 343 pages Contents: School desegregation -- See what tomorrow brings (1968) / James W. Thompson -- The first day of school (1958) / R.V. Cassill -- Neighbors (1966) / Diane Oliver -- Spring is now (1968) / Joan Williams -- Sit-ins -- The beginning of violence (1985) / Joanne Leedom-Ackerman -- The welcome table (1996) / Lee Martin -- Food that pleases, food to take home (1995) / Anthony Grooms -- Direct action (1963) / Mike Thelwell -- Doris is coming (2003) / Z Z Packer -- Marches and demonstrations -- Negro progress (1994) / Anthony Grooms -- The marchers (1979) / Henry Dumas -- Moonshot (1989) / Alma Jean Billingslea-Brown -- Selma (1972) / Natalie L. M. Petesch -- Marching through Boston (1966) / John Updike -- Acts of violence -- The convert (1963) / Lerone Bennett Jr. -- Where is the voice coming from? (1963) / Eudora Welty -- Liars don't qualify (1961) / Junius Edwards -- Advancing Luna - and Ida B. Wells (1977) / Alice Walker -- Means and ends (1985) / Rosellen Brown -- Going to meet the man (1965) / James Baldwin -- Retrospective -- Flora Devine (1995) / Anthony Grooms -- Paying my dues (1996) / Val Coleman -- To my young husband (2000) / Alice Walker Summary: During the civil rights era, masses of people marched in the streets, boycotted stores, and registered to vote. Others challenged racism in ways more solitary but no less life changing. These twenty-three stories give a voice to the nameless, ordinary citizens without whom the movement would have failed. From bloody melees at public lunch counters to anxious musings at the family dinner table, the diverse experiences depicted in this anthology make the civil rights movement as real and immediate as the best histories and memoirs. Each story focuses on a particular, sometimes private, moment in the historic struggle for social justice in America.(Publisher)