Short stories of the civil rights movement : an anthology / edited by Margaret Earley Whitt. - Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2006. - xviii, 343 p ; 24 cm.

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Flora Devine (1995) / Anthony Grooms -- Paying my dues (1996) / Val Coleman -- To my young husband (2000) / Alice Walker.

Black Issues Book Review.

A collection of twenty-three short stories by various African-American and white authors reflect the drive and power of ordinary citizens who influenced the civil rights movement.

Adult Follett Library Resources.

0820327999 (alk. paper) 0820328510 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780820327990 (alk. paper) 9780820328515 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2006012104


Civil rights movements--Fiction.
Short stories, American.
Civil rights movements--Fiction.
Short stories.


United States--Race relations--History--20th century--Fiction.
United States--Race relations--History--Fiction.

PS648.C53 / S58 2006

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