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DEEP IN OUR HEARTS: NINE WHITE WOMEN IN THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT
By Constance Curry/Joan C. Browning/Dorothy Dawson Burlage/Penny Patch/Theresa Del Pozzo/Sue Thrasher/ElaineDelott Baker/Emmie Schrader Adams/Casy Hayden.
Deep in Our Hearts is an eloquent book that takes us into the lives of nine young women who came of age in the 1960s while committing themselves actively and passionately to the struggle for racial equality and justice. These compelling first-person accounts take us back to one of the most tumultuous periods in our nation's history-to the early days of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Albany Freedom Ride, voter registration drives and lunch counter sit-ins, Freedom Summer, the 1964 Democratic Convention, and the rise of Black Power and the women's movement.
University of Georgia Press, paperback, 400 pages, 2002. $20.00 |
IT COMES FROM THE PEOPLE: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND LOCAL THEOLOGY
By Mary Ann Hinsdale, Helen Lewis, Maxine Waller
Photos, stories, songs, poems, and drama, telling the story of how citizens in a small southwest Virginia community organized to revitalize the town and demand participation in its future. It also tells how the community discovered its own local theology and growing consciousness of its cultural and religious values. It candidly reflects on the complex relationships with friends, allies, researchers, and consultants. Long-time Highlander staff person Helen Lewis and Highlander alumnus Maxine Waller are two of the authors.
Temple University Press, paperback, 400 pages, 1995. $27.95 |
LETTERS FROM YOUNG ACTIVISTS: TODAY'S REBELS SPEAK OUT
Edited by Dan Berger, Chesa Boudin, and Kenyon Farrow
Meet the bold new generation of activists. Aged ten to thirty-one, these diverse authors are helping to remake the world. They are atheist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim; queer, heterosexual, bisexual-Americans from every type of background, united in their vision for the world as they work towards racial, economic, and global justice.
Nation Books, paperback, 256 pages, 2005. $15.00 |
MISSING MOUNTAINS: WE WENT TO THE MOUNTAINTOP BUT IT WASN'T THERE
Edited by Kristin Johannsen, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Mary Ann Taylor-Hall.
Kentuckians write against mountaintop-removal mining in this book inspired by an authors' tour in Kentucky organized by the Kentuckians for the Commonwealth. Contributors include Wendell Berry, George Ella Lyons. Silas House, Bobbie Ann Mason and many others.
Wind Publications, paperback, 2006. $16.00 |
POWER AND POWERLESSNESS: QUIESCIENCE AND REBELLION IN AN APPALACHIAN VALLEY
By John Gaventa
Winner of Woodrow Wilson, W.O. Weatherford, and Lillian Smith book awards, Gaventa's study of a single valley poses broad questions about the politics of poverty, working class consciousness, and multinational corporate power in America. It documents the development of power relations in Clear Fork Valley, a mining area which for eighty years was owned and dominated by a British company.
University of Illinois Press, paperback, 263 pages, 1980. $25.00 |
TO MOVE A MOUNTAIN: FIGHTING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY IN APPALACHIA
By Eve S. Weinbaum
To Move a Mountain is an inspirational account of how a group of Appalachian men and women, politicized by the disaster of local plant closings, became unlikely activists in the Tennessee statehouse and the protests in Seattle. Weinbaum's firsthand look at the devastation wrought by the closings of community-sustaining factories become moving stories in the age of corporate globalization. With striking portraits of managers, workers, organizers, and local officials, the book uncovers a government and economic leadership whose policies show little regard for the workers they leave behind. Yet despite the repeated defeat of the workers, an astonishingly fiery economic justice movement sprung up in Tennessee as factory workers transformed themselves into activists.
New Press, hardcover, 340 pages, 2003. $25.95 |
WOMEN IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: TRAILBLAZERS AND TORCHBEARERS, 1941-1965
Edited by Vicki L. Crawford, Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and Barbara Woods.
The popular image of the civil rights movement is of a struggle composed of men, but women played an essential role at every level. The essays presented here range from studies of individual women - including Ella Baker, Septima Clark, Fannie Lou Hamer, Gloria Richardson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Modjeska Simkins, and Mary Church Terrell - to studies of the school and housing integration fight, organizers in the Mississippi Delta, the Highlander Folk School and South Carolina Sea Island Citizenship Schools, and the Free Southern Theater.
Indiana University Press, paperback, 290 pages, 1993. $19.95 |
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