- Paperback: 496 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Reprint edition (29 Sep 1983)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140067531
- ISBN-13: 978-0140067538
- Product Dimensions: 13 x 2.4 x 19.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 368,180 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"So touching, so exhilirating ... no book for a long time has left me so moved or so happy."
--Anthony Lewis, The New York Times Book Review
"Deeply affecting and searingly vivid"
--Atlanta Journal
"Remarkable ... the realities of our social history are described in a kind of magnificent humaneness."
--Chicago Tribune Book World
--Anthony Lewis, The New York Times Book Review
"Deeply affecting and searingly vivid"
--Atlanta Journal
"Remarkable ... the realities of our social history are described in a kind of magnificent humaneness."
--Chicago Tribune Book World
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The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence. From the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 to the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968, these are the peeople who fought the epic battle: Rosa Parks, Andrew Young, Ralph Abernathy, Hosea Williams, Fannie Lou Hamer, and others, both black and white, who participated in sit-ins, Freedom Rides, voter drives, and campaigns for school and university integration.
Here, too, are voices from the "Down-Home Resistance" that supported George Wallace, Bull Connor, and the "traditions" of the Old South--voices that conjure up the frightening terrain on which the battle was fought. My Soul is Rested is a powerful document of social and political history, as well as a magnificent tribute to those who made history happen.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This account of the course of the Civil Rights Movement in the American South is moving and inspiring. It is a collection of interviews of leaders of the movement, accompanied by commentary from Howell Raines himself. It is a brilliant source for historians of the period, giving real insight into the motivation individuals had for getting involved. The range of witnesses Raines has collected is impressive, from key figures in the movement such as Ralph Abernathy, to local leaders such as Fannie Lou Hamer. The interviews with the white segregationists are particularly gripping, as they contrast so distinctly with the stories of those who were fighting them for equality.
I found this book inspiring and gripping, as the characters who stood up to segregation in the south were given a chance to tell their stories in their own words. It is hard to believe some of the tales of injustice they have to tell, let alone that they occurred within living memory. Accompanying this, Raines' commentary and explanations of events will help readers new to the subject.
Anyone who is interested in race relations, America or the Civil Rights Movement will enjoy this book. Anyone else will find it thought-provoking and poignant.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
An empowering book to read!
6 May 2001
Format:Paperback
It was difficult to stop reading the book, once I started. This collection of interviews with the idealists, the activists, the real "fighters" in the civil rights movement in the 50s and 60s -- and the people who stood against them -- is an empowering, educational read. Truly, this book is a must for those interested in learning more about the civil rights struggle (a struggle that continues until today), and about movements for peace and social justice in general.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Extraordinary account of an extraordinary time.
2 Sep 2001
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Howell Raines is the new executive editor for "The New York Times," but he is at heart a writer. Both strengths come to the fore in this excellent book on the American civil rights movement. As an oral history, it necessarily contains first-hand accounts of dozens and dozens of the main (and not-so-important) players in the movement. Raines does a fine and fair job of putting their stories into essentially chronological order and editing or moving bits and pieces only where necessary to ensure good flow for the reader. There were a few names I had heard of before, but many were new to me. There are surprises in this book. While we mostly associate the civil rights movement with the deep south in the mid-1960s, it actually got its start in Chicago in the 1940s when groups of people protested with the first lunch-counter sit-ins (when a manager came out to scold one of these groups with the flat, "We don't serve colored folks here," one quick-witted participant fired back, "That's OK, we don't eat 'em!"). Another revelation was the tensions between the older blacks and the younger black student generation. The older blacks, while not happy with segregation, sometimes felt that at least everyone knew where they stood with it--while the younger generation was champing at the bit to get out there and change the world overnight. Finally, it was interesting to read that many of the original founders of the movement were inspired far more by Gandhi than by Martin Luther King, Jr. A number of them express their opinion that King--while undoubtedly important and absolutely essential once the movement got underway--was not himself so convinced as to the value of a) the movement itself and b) non-violent protest--many of this friends and co-workers say here that he continued to espouse it only because eventually, he felt he had been thoroughly and unmistakeably identified with it. Although I was surprised that neither Coretta Scott King nor the Reverend Jesse Jackson were inteviewed for Mr. Raines' book, their absence is my only quibble with what is otherwise an enormously valuable and terrifically readable history.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A must read on the civil rights movement.
23 Sep 1998
Format:Paperback
Mr.Raines in true reporters form asks the questions that needed to be asked of those people who took part in the civil rights movement. Yet, one see that the author,a native Southern,had some feelings for those men who played the role of vilians in the South, in tha he asked them questions that no one else had never asked of them.
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