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• catalog abstract "Farther Along is the intimate retelling of one passionate liberal's lifelong work to change society. Over four decades, Marvin Caplan - white, Jewish, male, a native northernercrafted his career, volunteered his free time, chose his neighborhood, and raised his children against the yardstick of racial justice. In his memoir, Caplan doesn't paint himself a hero for his actions. "Picketing, for me," he admits, "was a painful obligation." He describes qualms about risking his job to protest alongside Mary Church Terrell for the desegregation of Washington's public eating establishments, about sending his children to a school 90 percent black, and, in the early cold war years, about associating with integrationists of Communist bent. Still, a sense of purpose so self-evidently right energized Caplan and others at the grass-roots level, and he renders with compelling eloquence the endless hours of picketing, protesting, meeting, stuffing and mailing, organizing, arguing and advocating - as well as the less public moments of quietly living one's convictions. Today this self-described "blinkered optimist" remains rooted to his racially mixed neighborhood and committed to the causes to which he devoted years of work. In an era when "unstylish beliefs" like Caplan's provoke cynicism and dejection, his story brings the refreshing reminder and the encouraging viewpoint that forty years later we're "farther along" and "we'll understand it all by and by."".
• catalog contributor b11103741.
• catalog coverage "Washington (D.C.) Race relations.".
• catalog created "1999.".
• catalog date "1999".
• catalog date "1999.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
• catalog description "Farther Along is the intimate retelling of one passionate liberal's lifelong work to change society. Over four decades, Marvin Caplan - white, Jewish, male, a native northernercrafted his career, volunteered his free time, chose his neighborhood, and raised his children against the yardstick of racial justice.".
• catalog description "In his memoir, Caplan doesn't paint himself a hero for his actions. "Picketing, for me," he admits, "was a painful obligation." He describes qualms about risking his job to protest alongside Mary Church Terrell for the desegregation of Washington's public eating establishments, about sending his children to a school 90 percent black, and, in the early cold war years, about associating with integrationists of Communist bent. Still, a sense of purpose so self-evidently right energized Caplan and others at the grass-roots level, and he renders with compelling eloquence the endless hours of picketing, protesting, meeting, stuffing and mailing, organizing, arguing and advocating - as well as the less public moments of quietly living one's convictions.".
• catalog description "Today this self-described "blinkered optimist" remains rooted to his racially mixed neighborhood and committed to the causes to which he devoted years of work. In an era when "unstylish beliefs" like Caplan's provoke cynicism and dejection, his story brings the refreshing reminder and the encouraging viewpoint that forty years later we're "farther along" and "we'll understand it all by and by."".
• catalog description "pt. I. From Philadelphia to Richmond, 1941-1951 -- pt. II. Washington, D.C.: The Fight to Desegregate the Restaurants, 1951-1953 -- pt. III. Washington, D.C.: Neighbors, Incorporated, 1957 -- pt. IV. The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, 1963-1981 -- pt. V. Back to Old Stamping Grounds, 1981-".
• catalog extent "x, 286 p., [16] p. of plates ;".
• catalog identifier "0807123528 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1999".
• catalog issued "1999.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press,".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog spatial "Washington (D.C.) Race relations.".
• catalog spatial "Washington (D.C.)".
• catalog subject "323/.092 B 21".
• catalog subject "African Americans Civil rights History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Caplan, Marvin Harold, 1919-".
• catalog subject "Civil rights movements United States History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Civil rights movements Washington (D.C.) History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Civil rights workers United States Biography.".
• catalog subject "E185.98.C37 A3 1999".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. From Philadelphia to Richmond, 1941-1951 -- pt. II. Washington, D.C.: The Fight to Desegregate the Restaurants, 1951-1953 -- pt. III. Washington, D.C.: Neighbors, Incorporated, 1957 -- pt. IV. The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, 1963-1981 -- pt. V. Back to Old Stamping Grounds, 1981-".
• catalog title "Farther along : a civil rights memoir / Marvin Caplan.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".