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• catalog abstract "All the men and women who tell their stories in Refuse to Stand Silently By played critical roles in some of the first--and most decisive--struggles for social justice America has experienced in this century. Yet none of them were elected or otherwise sanctioned to act on behalf of others. These are people who faced injustice and refused to stand silently by and allow it to continue. In this engrossing oral history they give not only firsthand reminiscences of seminal events in the American labor and civil rights movements, but forthright narratives of their lives, their family and educational backgrounds, their early influences, and the unlikely roads that led them to activism. Through their words, a history of grass roots social activism in America emerges. Rosa Parks tells of the days preceding the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, precipitated by her refusal to give up her seat on a city bus. At that time she was a member of the Montgomery NAACP, struggling to help blacks register to vote in the face of poll taxes, racist registration committees, and the Ku Klux Klan at the polls. Her memories detail the period that would, in many ways, fuel blacks' outrage in the South during the decades that followed. Pullman-car porter Edgar Daniel Nixon remembers how a boyhood exposure to integration in a Northern train-station cafeteria set him on a course that would one day compel him to defy a Southern white passenger who demanded, "Go get that bag, boy!"--And to dedicate his life to the causes of labor and civil rights. Julian Bond recollects his experiences as a Northern-born middle-class black who organized student protestors in the strife-ridden South of the early 1960s. And Studs Terkel recalls his beginnings as a writer and social observer, and reflects on what we can learn from both the labor and the civil rights movements. These remarkable individuals are among the many here who recount risking arrest--and often their lives--in order to battle the societal, political, and corporate institutions, laws, and philosophies that oppressed the common people. In the process, they chronicle how their actions resulted in the formation of unions, in the abolition of segregation laws, and in a living legacy of reform. Refuse to Stand Silently By is also the remarkable story of the Highlander Center, the renowned institution in rural Tennessee that, for the past sixty years, has educated adults from all races and walks of life in how to fight injustice with grass roots activism. Indeed, it was the Highlander Center that empowered many of the individuals in this book with the knowledge and skills to fight and win crucial battles for human rights.".
• catalog contributor b3625163.
• catalog coverage "United States Social conditions 1918-1932.".
• catalog coverage "United States Social conditions 1933-1945.".
• catalog coverage "United States Social conditions 1945-".
• catalog coverage "United States Social conditions.".
• catalog created "c1991.".
• catalog date "1991".
• catalog date "c1991.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1991.".
• catalog description "All the men and women who tell their stories in Refuse to Stand Silently By played critical roles in some of the first--and most decisive--struggles for social justice America has experienced in this century. Yet none of them were elected or otherwise sanctioned to act on behalf of others. These are people who faced injustice and refused to stand silently by and allow it to continue. In this engrossing oral history they give not only firsthand reminiscences of seminal events in the American labor and civil rights movements, but forthright narratives of their lives, their family and educational backgrounds, their early influences, and the unlikely roads that led them to activism. Through their words, a history of grass roots social activism in America emerges. Rosa Parks tells of the days preceding the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, precipitated by her refusal to give up her seat on a city bus. ".
• catalog description "At that time she was a member of the Montgomery NAACP, struggling to help blacks register to vote in the face of poll taxes, racist registration committees, and the Ku Klux Klan at the polls. Her memories detail the period that would, in many ways, fuel blacks' outrage in the South during the decades that followed. Pullman-car porter Edgar Daniel Nixon remembers how a boyhood exposure to integration in a Northern train-station cafeteria set him on a course that would one day compel him to defy a Southern white passenger who demanded, "Go get that bag, boy!"--And to dedicate his life to the causes of labor and civil rights. Julian Bond recollects his experiences as a Northern-born middle-class black who organized student protestors in the strife-ridden South of the early 1960s. And Studs Terkel recalls his beginnings as a writer and social observer, and reflects on what we can learn from both the labor and the civil rights movements. ".
• catalog description "Contents (cont.): Bernice Robinson (p.368) -- Don West (p.371) -- Edgar Daniel Nixon (p.375) -- Andrew Young (p.382) -- Dorothy Cotton (p.388) -- Septima Clark (p.396) -- Pete Seeger (p.400) -- Afterword (p.409) -- Biographical profiles (p.415) -- Index (p.419).".
• catalog description "Contents (cont.): Don West (p.194) -- Pete Seeger (p.200) -- Chapter 4. 1950-61: when segregation and the self-punishment of a nation were called "patriotism" (p.209) -- Pete Seeger and Don West (p.211) -- Edgar Daniel Nixon (p.219) -- Rosa Parks (p.229) -- Septima Clark and Bernice Robinson (p.236) -- Ralph Helstein and Lucille Thornburgh (p.255) -- Bernice Robinson and May Justus (p.264) -- Chapter 5. 1960-70: highlander's influence on a new generation of revolutionary leaders (p.273) -- Pete Seeger (p.275) -- Andrew Young (p.279) -- Dorothy Cotton (p.284) -- Bernice Robinson (p.297) -- Septima Clark (p.302) -- Julian Bond (p.315) -- May Justus (p.334) -- Chapter 6. A retrospective : where are we going? where have we been? (p.341) -- Studs Terkel (p.343) -- Julian Bond (p.359).".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction (p.xiii) -- Acknowledgments (p.xxiii) -- Chapter 1. 1900-30: childhoods that produced leaders of unprecedented social change (p.1) -- Septima Clark (p.3) -- Edgar Daniel Nixon (p.22) -- May Justus (p.29) -- Ralph Tefferteller (p.46) -- Don West (p.62) -- Chapter 2. 1930-40: the place and the people that transformed "I" into "we" (p.73) -- May Justus and Don West (p.75) -- Zilla Hawes Daniel (p.89) -- Ralph Tefferteller (p.102) -- Lucille Thornburgh (p.119) -- Ralph Helstein (p.129) -- Chapter 3. 1940-50: the war that turned industry's "labor problems" into short-term solutions (p.143) -- Ralph Helstein (p.145) -- Rosa Parks (p.158) -- Bernice Robinson (p.171) -- Lucille Thornburgh (p.191).".
• catalog description "These remarkable individuals are among the many here who recount risking arrest--and often their lives--in order to battle the societal, political, and corporate institutions, laws, and philosophies that oppressed the common people. In the process, they chronicle how their actions resulted in the formation of unions, in the abolition of segregation laws, and in a living legacy of reform. Refuse to Stand Silently By is also the remarkable story of the Highlander Center, the renowned institution in rural Tennessee that, for the past sixty years, has educated adults from all races and walks of life in how to fight injustice with grass roots activism. Indeed, it was the Highlander Center that empowered many of the individuals in this book with the knowledge and skills to fight and win crucial battles for human rights.".
• catalog extent "xxi, 430 p. ; 25 cm.".
• catalog hasFormat "Refuse to stand silently by.".
• catalog identifier "0385175728 :".
• catalog isFormatOf "Refuse to stand silently by.".
• catalog issued "1991".
• catalog issued "c1991.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Doubleday,".
• catalog relation "Refuse to stand silently by.".
• catalog spatial "United States Social conditions 1918-1932.".
• catalog spatial "United States Social conditions 1933-1945.".
• catalog spatial "United States Social conditions 1945-".
• catalog spatial "United States Social conditions.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "303.48/4/0973 20".
• catalog subject "HN57 .R38 1991".
• catalog subject "Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.)".
• catalog subject "Social movements United States History 20th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Contents (cont.): Bernice Robinson (p.368) -- Don West (p.371) -- Edgar Daniel Nixon (p.375) -- Andrew Young (p.382) -- Dorothy Cotton (p.388) -- Septima Clark (p.396) -- Pete Seeger (p.400) -- Afterword (p.409) -- Biographical profiles (p.415) -- Index (p.419).".
• catalog tableOfContents "Contents (cont.): Don West (p.194) -- Pete Seeger (p.200) -- Chapter 4. 1950-61: when segregation and the self-punishment of a nation were called "patriotism" (p.209) -- Pete Seeger and Don West (p.211) -- Edgar Daniel Nixon (p.219) -- Rosa Parks (p.229) -- Septima Clark and Bernice Robinson (p.236) -- Ralph Helstein and Lucille Thornburgh (p.255) -- Bernice Robinson and May Justus (p.264) -- Chapter 5. 1960-70: highlander's influence on a new generation of revolutionary leaders (p.273) -- Pete Seeger (p.275) -- Andrew Young (p.279) -- Dorothy Cotton (p.284) -- Bernice Robinson (p.297) -- Septima Clark (p.302) -- Julian Bond (p.315) -- May Justus (p.334) -- Chapter 6. A retrospective : where are we going? where have we been? (p.341) -- Studs Terkel (p.343) -- Julian Bond (p.359).".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction (p.xiii) -- Acknowledgments (p.xxiii) -- Chapter 1. 1900-30: childhoods that produced leaders of unprecedented social change (p.1) -- Septima Clark (p.3) -- Edgar Daniel Nixon (p.22) -- May Justus (p.29) -- Ralph Tefferteller (p.46) -- Don West (p.62) -- Chapter 2. 1930-40: the place and the people that transformed "I" into "we" (p.73) -- May Justus and Don West (p.75) -- Zilla Hawes Daniel (p.89) -- Ralph Tefferteller (p.102) -- Lucille Thornburgh (p.119) -- Ralph Helstein (p.129) -- Chapter 3. 1940-50: the war that turned industry's "labor problems" into short-term solutions (p.143) -- Ralph Helstein (p.145) -- Rosa Parks (p.158) -- Bernice Robinson (p.171) -- Lucille Thornburgh (p.191).".
• catalog title "Refuse to stand silently by : an oral history of grass roots social activism in America, 1921-1964 / edited with an introduction by Eliot Wigginton.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".