Description
Drawing on his firsthand reporting, this sweeping narrative follows the young Nashville students who helped ignite the modern Civil Rights Movement through lunch-counter sit-ins, Freedom Rides, voter-registration drives, and other campaigns of nonviolent resistance. Their courage, discipline, and moral conviction brought them into direct confrontation with segregation and transformed seemingly ordinary college students—including future movement leaders—into agents of historic change. Spanning the pivotal years from 1960 to 1965 and tracing the activists’ lives beyond those events, the book explores idealism, faith, leadership, sacrifice, and the personal cost of social change. Vividly reported and deeply human, it offers an intimate portrait of a movement as experienced by the young people who helped shape it.
Available Editions
paperback
Fawcett Books
Published Jan 1, 1999
783 pages
ISBN: 0449004392
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Details
First Published
1998
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Children by David Halberstam.