They stand as unselfconscious as if the photograph were being taken at a church picnic and not during one of the pitched battles of the civil right...
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Dec 06, 2009
Charles
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In February 1995, Washington Post reporter Paul Hendrickson was browsing in a bookstore in Berkeley, where he came across a book of photographs by Charles Moore from the civil rights era.
In one photo, a group of white men has focused its attention on a man gripping a wooden stick as if it were a baseball bat. He has a cigarette clenched in his teeth as he demonstrates, with evident amusement, how he intends to use this stick. Meanwhile, the man to his left, whose cigarette is danglin More...
In one photo, a group of white men has focused its attention on a man gripping a wooden stick as if it were a baseball bat. He has a cigarette clenched in his teeth as he demonstrates, with evident amusement, how he intends to use this stick. Meanwhile, the man to his left, whose cigarette is danglin More...
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Nov 02, 2010
Elaine
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I really liked the subject matter of this book. Using a photo taken by Civil RIghts photographer, Charles Moore, Paul Hendrickson tries to link the impact of the civil rights movement on the next two generations.
The conclusions he finds are startling. Change does not happen quickly. Great book for discussion.
The conclusions he finds are startling. Change does not happen quickly. Great book for discussion.
Nov 22, 2009
Barbara
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The author uses the 1962 Life photo of several sheriffs from around Mississippi at the Ole Miss campus when James Meredith was trying to register and integrate the school. He researched each person in the photo and the legacy of hate that they handed down to their childrenand grandchildren. In addition, he researched the photographer and James Meredith's family. This is an interesting read.
Apr 02, 2011
James
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a riviting account of the intergration of Ole Miss and the banality of common everyday evil and our willingness to just let it pass or even participate. And of of who we might be today in that continuing struggle
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Jul 05, 2011
kirk
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Good book information-wise, but it's written by a news journalist so I felt it got kind of boring in parts. Really sad to be reminded what happened in one of my favorite states. :(
Jan 27, 2008
Carmen
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This book took a famous picture from Time magazine where you see a group of sherrifs standing in a circle with a billy club. The story behind the photo is that they are there to stop the integration of the University of Mississippi.
Well, the book isn't about the actual event. What it does is take each sherrif in the photo and tell their story, along with the story of the photographer and the man who first integrated UM.
Even better, the author follows the story of the chi More...
Well, the book isn't about the actual event. What it does is take each sherrif in the photo and tell their story, along with the story of the photographer and the man who first integrated UM.
Even better, the author follows the story of the chi More...
Mar 23, 2009
Steve
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I picked this book up for a buck in a Big Lots in Virginia and it was one of the best books I read last year.
Sep 08, 2009
Robert
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I found this to be an intriguing way to approach a historical event. It was well worth the read (and the $1 price tag at Big Lots). We all hear the stories that surround an event in history, but we rarely hear how those events affect events for years to come, and that's why this book is worth reading. It's an interesting look at a group of law men and their descendants, and how the choices they made at the time the photo was taken helped to shape all of the events that followed in their lives. I
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Aug 09, 2009
Kelly
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What would have made an excellent essay was instead turned into an endless book(by endless I mean I didn't finish it) that starts out morally superior and bitter, shifts tones to add more perspective and give some background on other famous pictures and people of that era, then sort of rambles on. That's where I left it. I think I got what I needed from it.
Oct 31, 2008
Jay
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I'm never written a book. But if I could choose one book that I wish I had written instead of the actual author, this would be the one. Everything in history that I've ever cared deeply about is in this book--Mississippi, the South, Civil Rights stuff, everything.
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Jul 23, 2008
non-fiction,Mississippi,civil rights history,race relations,American history,racism,20th century South,race riots,bigotry
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