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1 online resource (xiv, 230 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraits |
Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 2340 Muhammad Ali Boulevard; Dark Days in Columbia; On the Road to Higher Education; Way Up North in Louisville; An Iconoclast in the Classroom; Black & White Niggers; Lifting Bales & Other Vocations; Jim Crow Days; Lunch Counters & Flaming Crosses; Black Heroes; Blacks at the Ballot Box; Uncle Tom & George Wallace; The Battle's Not Over; All Colors Are Beautiful; Musings of a Militant Pacifist; The Religion of a Doubting Thomas; The Rest of the Dream; Index |
Summary |
In The Rest of the Dream, Lyman Johnson, grassroots civil rights leader, tells his own story. All four of Johnson's grandparents were slaves in Tennessee. Yet his father was a college graduate, principal of a black school, and the inspiration for his son's love of justice. Lyman Johnson was born in 1906 during the darkest days of segregation. He learned from his father not to sit in the ""crow's nest"" reserved for blacks in his hometown movie theater. This refusal to accept second-class citizenship became a guiding principle in Johnson's life. Johnson was almost forty-three when he won admis |
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Oral autobiography based on interviews from 1979 to 1987 |
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Includes index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Johnson, Lyman T., 1906-1997.
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Johnson, Lyman T., 1906-1997 fast |
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African Americans -- Kentucky -- Biography
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Civil rights workers -- Kentucky -- Biography
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- Kentucky
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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African Americans
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African Americans -- Civil rights
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Civil rights workers
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Race relations
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Kentucky -- Race relations
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Kentucky
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Electronic book
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Author |
Hall, Wade, 1934-2015
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ISBN |
9780813156989 |
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081315698X |
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