I Woke Up with My Mind on Freedom

I Woke Up with My Mind on Freedom
Author :
Publisher : UrbanPress
Total Pages :
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1633600688
ISBN-13 : 9781633600683
Rating : 4/5 (683 Downloads)

Book Synopsis I Woke Up with My Mind on Freedom by : Janice Kelsey

Download or read book I Woke Up with My Mind on Freedom written by Janice Kelsey and published by UrbanPress. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1963, 16-year-old Janice Wesley made a decision that had a profound affect on her future. She decided to risk it all and go to jail by becoming a foot soldier in the Birmingham, Alabama Children's Crusade to protest the racial segregation that prevailed in her city and throughout the South. Janice tells the story of her arrest in I Woke Up with My Mind on Freedom, and goes on to describe her role in the new South as an educator and administrator. Today, she travels the United States, speaking about the horrors of living in the old South while describing how she and other youth made a difference and changed their world.


I Woke Up with My Mind on Freedom Related Books

I Woke Up with My Mind on Freedom
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Janice Kelsey
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-15 - Publisher: UrbanPress

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In 1963, 16-year-old Janice Wesley made a decision that had a profound affect on her future. She decided to risk it all and go to jail by becoming a foot soldie
The Face of Emmett Till
Language: en
Pages: 92
Authors: Mamie Till-Mobley
Categories: African Americans
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Dramatic Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In August, 1955 the body of Emmett Till was found floating in the Tallahatchie River. His mother Mamie, was determined that his death should not go unnoticed, a
Freedom on My Mind
Language: en
Pages: 766
Authors: Manning Marable
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-07-10 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Freedom on My Mind reveals the richly diverse and complex experience of black people in America in their own words, from the Colonial era of Benjamin Banneker t
Freedom's Coming
Language: en
Pages: 357
Authors: Paul Harvey
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-09-01 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In a sweeping analysis of religion in the post-Civil War and twentieth-century South, Freedom's Coming puts race and culture at the center, describing southern
Everybody Says Freedom
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Pete Seeger
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Montgomery, Alabama, 1955--the civil rights movement has begun. The authors build a narrative from the words of the people, their photographs and their songs to