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Let Freedom Ring: A Documentary History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement

By Peter B. Levy
296 pages

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Contributors:: Peter B. Levy
Publisher:: Praeger
Place of publication:: Westport, CT
Publication year:: 1992
Subjects:: African Americans--Civil Rights--History--20th Century--Sources
Civil Rights Movements--United States--History--20th Century--Sources
United States--Race Relations--Sources

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This book traces the story of the civil rights movement through the written and spoken words of those who participated in it. It includes both classic texts, such as Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," and lesser-known gems, such as Robert Moses' "Letter from a Mississippi Jail Cell" and James Lawson's address to SNCC's 1960 founding meeting. "This is a documentary collection that has been needed for a long time. The burgeoning interest in the civil rights movement argues for such a work, and the need to have the experience of the movement in the participants' own words demands it. Words counted during the civil rights movement, and Levy's collection . . . is the best and most accessible." Randall M. Miller Professor of History Director of American Studies Saint Joseph's University

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