If Your Backs Not Bent : The Role of the Citizenship Education Program in the Civil Rights Movement

English

ISBN: 0743296834

EAN: 9780743296830

Category: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies/Religion / Christian Church / Leadership/Political Science / Civil Rights/Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations/Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage/

Publisher: Atria Books

Release Date: 09/04/2012

Synopsis: The only female in Martin Luther King, Jr.s inner circle of leadership, for the first time, offers her account of the Civil Rights Movement and what it means to us now.Dorothy Cotton, recently honored with a Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum, is the former director for the Southern Christian Leader Conferences Citizens Education Project. Ms. Cotton was at the front lines in the fight for civil rights. In If Your Backs Not Bent she shares an up-close and personal account of those turbulent times, as no one else can. Born into poverty in North Carolina, she survived deprivation and racism by seeking solace in books and spirituality, worked her way through college, earned a masters degree, and married. But something was missing. She found it through her work with the Movement and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., then a charismatic young preacher. She became a member the his Executive Committee for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, training and organizing men and women across the South to participate in nonviolent demonstrations, including the fateful 1963 Birmingham campaign. After Kings death, she continued her work as an activist, serving as vice president of field operations for the King Center for Nonviolent Change. Today she speaks around the world, from Africa to China, and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, the BBC, PBS American Experience, and many more. If Your Backs Not Bent is the first published account of how her work and the CEP were fundamental to the success of the Civil Rights Movement.

If Your Backs Not Bent : The Role of the Citizenship Education Program in the Civil Rights Movement

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.1 inches

Width: 6.12 inches

Length: 9.25 inches

Weight: 20.53 oz

Pages: 352