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- catalog abstract ""The summer of 1964 had been "Freedom Summer" for a few campuses. The Student Non-Violent Co-Ordinating Committee (SNCC) had drawn some five hundred students, most of them white, from Ivy League and prestigious universities to help its integration efforts in Mississippi. An up-and-coming leader named Stokely Carmichael had told a group of prospective volunteers in New York that SNCC wanted to be sure that if blacks were killed for the civil rights cause, whites would die with them. What he said was prophetic, even if it wasn't popular. A few weeks after his speech, three young men - two white and one black - were murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi. The nation was scandalized." "While he wasn't aware of Carmichael's strategy when he decided to join a 1965 summer voter registration program, Dick J. Reavis felt it instinctively when he told his resistant father the reason he was going. "Dad, if we live in a country where nobody pays attention when Negroes die, then I guess that's the way it has to be. Somebody has to pay the price." The price the white middle-class Texan paid when he spent a summer on the wrong side of the tracks in Demopolis, Alabama, was his innocence." "If White Kids Die describes his gradual maturation as he encountered the other side of legally enforced racism. Harassed by police for being in a white neighborhood with a black coworker, arrested for vagrancy, and prevented from driving by arcane residency laws, Reavis came to understand the frustration with "The System" that fueled the Civil Rights Movement. At the same time, he saw the infighting and strategizing within the Movement that prevented it from living up to his ideals. In the end, he concludes, "The System made some concessions to our protests, but its power was never trumped. ... But history has not ended, and deep in my heart, I do believe that we - virtually the whole human race - will overcome someday.""--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12075895.
- catalog coverage "Demopolis (Ala.) Race relations.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""If White Kids Die describes his gradual maturation as he encountered the other side of legally enforced racism. Harassed by police for being in a white neighborhood with a black coworker, arrested for vagrancy, and prevented from driving by arcane residency laws, Reavis came to understand the frustration with "The System" that fueled the Civil Rights Movement. At the same time, he saw the infighting and strategizing within the Movement that prevented it from living up to his ideals. In the end, he concludes, "The System made some concessions to our protests, but its power was never trumped. ... But history has not ended, and deep in my heart, I do believe that we - virtually the whole human race - will overcome someday.""--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""The summer of 1964 had been "Freedom Summer" for a few campuses. The Student Non-Violent Co-Ordinating Committee (SNCC) had drawn some five hundred students, most of them white, from Ivy League and prestigious universities to help its integration efforts in Mississippi. An up-and-coming leader named Stokely Carmichael had told a group of prospective volunteers in New York that SNCC wanted to be sure that if blacks were killed for the civil rights cause, whites would die with them. What he said was prophetic, even if it wasn't popular. A few weeks after his speech, three young men - two white and one black - were murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi. The nation was scandalized."".
- catalog description ""While he wasn't aware of Carmichael's strategy when he decided to join a 1965 summer voter registration program, Dick J. Reavis felt it instinctively when he told his resistant father the reason he was going. "Dad, if we live in a country where nobody pays attention when Negroes die, then I guess that's the way it has to be. Somebody has to pay the price." The price the white middle-class Texan paid when he spent a summer on the wrong side of the tracks in Demopolis, Alabama, was his innocence."".
- catalog extent "viii, 117 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "If white kids die.".
- catalog identifier "1574411292 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "If white kids die.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press,".
- catalog relation "If white kids die.".
- catalog spatial "Alabama Demopolis".
- catalog spatial "Demopolis (Ala.) Race relations.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "323.1/1960730761392 21".
- catalog subject "African Americans Civil rights Alabama Demopolis History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Suffrage Alabama Demopolis History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Civil rights movements Alabama Demopolis History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Civil rights workers Alabama Demopolis Biography.".
- catalog subject "F334.D3 R43 2001".
- catalog subject "Reavis, Dick J.".
- catalog subject "Southern Christian Leadership Conference History.".
- catalog subject "Whites United States Biography.".
- catalog title "If white kids die / Dick J. Reavis.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".