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. Here, too, are voices from the 'Down-Home Resistance' that supported George Wallace, Bull Connor, and the 'traditions' of the Old Southvoices that conjure up the frightening terrain on which the battle was fought. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1992. He is the author of Whiskey Man, a novel, and My Soul Is Rested, an oral history of the Civil Rights movement.

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. : My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered (9780140067538) by Raines, Howell and a great selection of similar New. Before stepping down in 2003, Howell Raines was executive editor of The New York Times.

Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 1983. The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered. Byline: BY HOWELL RAINES Howell Raines, the author of ''My Soul Is Rested,'' an oral history of the civil rights movement, is deputy Washington editor of The New York Times Lead.

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