Voices in Our Blood is a literary anthology of the most
important and artful interpretations of the civil rights movement,
past and present. It showcases what forty of the nation''s best
writers — including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison,
William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Robert Penn Warren,
Eudora Welty, and Richard Wright — had to say about the central
domestic drama of the American Century.
Editor Jon Meacham has chosen pieces by journalists, novelists,
historians, and artists, bringing together a wide range of black
and white perspectives and experiences. The result is an
unprecedented and powerful portrait of the movement''s spirit and
struggle, told through voices that resonate with passion and
strength.
Maya Angelou takes us on a poignant journey back to her childhood
in the Arkansas of the 1930s. On the front page of The New York
Times , James Reston marks the movement''s apex as he describes what
it was like to watch Martin Luther King, Jr., deliver his heralded
"I Have a Dream" speech in real time. Alice Walker takes up the
movement''s progress a decade later in her article "Choosing to Stay
at Home: Ten Years After the March on Washington." And John Lewis
chronicles the unimaginable courage of the ordinary African
Americans who challenged the prevailing order, paid for it in blood
and tears, and justly triumphed.
Voices in Our Blood is a compelling look at the movement as it
actually happened, from the days leading up to World War II to the
anxieties and ambiguities of this new century. The story of race in
America is a never-ending one, and Voices in Our Blood tells us how
we got this far—and how far we still have to go to reach the
Promised Land.
From the Hardcover edition.
關於作者：
KEVIN PHILLIPS has been a political and economic commentator
for more than three decades. He is currently a regular contributor
to the Los Angeles Times and National Public Radio, and also writes
for Harper’s Magazine and Time. The author of nine other books,
most recently The Cousins’ Wars, he lives in Litchfield,
Connecticut.
From the Hardcover edition.
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