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Aaron Henry: The Fire Ever Burningby Aaron Henry, Constance Curry , Connie CurryISBN 1578062128 (1-57806-212-8)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Mississippi
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aaron Henry: The Fire Ever Burning'Book summary:Although Aaron Henry (1922-1997) was one of the nation's major grassroots fighters in the freedom movement on local, state, and national levels, his name has not yet been accorded its full recognition. This book reveals why Aaron Henry should be acknowledged, in the ranks of Fannie Lou Hamer and Medgar Evers, as a truly influential crusader.
Long before many of his contemporaries, he was a civil rights activist, but he preferred to stay out of the limelight. A certified pharmacist and owner of Fourth Street Drug Store in Clarksdale, he considered himself a down-home businessman who must not leave Mississippi. Although he was a key figure in bringing Head Start, housing, employment, and health service to his state, his tact and his quiet diplomacy garnered him less attention than more radical protesters received.
Born in the age of segregation in the Mississippi Delta, the son of a sharecropper, he became state president of the NAACP in 1959. He was able, more than any previous leader, to unite Mississippi blacks, despite diversities of age, ideology, and class, in confronting white supremacy. He spearheaded the formation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO). Some activists criticized him for urging protesters to take the middle ground between the NAACP's conservative position and SNCC's militant activism. Facing recurring death threats, thirty-three jailings, and Klan bombings of his home and drugstore, Henry remained stalwart and courageous. John Dittmer describes him as a "conservative militant," willing not only to risk his life but also to compromise on issues of strategy even when doing so led to alienation from outspoken activists.
Constance Curry has shaped this personal narrative of a brave and underacknowledged man who helped to change his state forever. To his candid story, transcribed from interviews he gave two young historians in 1965, Curry adds new material from her own interviews with his family, friends, and political associates. Henry's prophetic voice documents a momentous period in African American history that extends from the Great Depression through the civil rights movement in the pivotal 1960s.
Constance Curry is the author of Silver Rights, winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award in 1996. She lives in Atlanta. [via]
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Clive: The Life and Death of a British Emperorby Aaron Henry, Constance Curry , Connie CurryISBN 0312265697 (0-312-26569-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movementby Ed Baker, Constance Curry , Sue Thrasher, Joan C. Browning, Dorothy Dawson Burlage, Penny Patch, Theresa Del Pozzo, Emmie Schrader Adams, Casey HaydenISBN 0820322660 (0-8203-2266-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movementby Joan C. Browning, Dorothy Dawson Burlage, Constance CurryISBN 0820324191 (0-8203-2419-1)
Softcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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The Lost Years: Surviving a Mother And Daughter's Worst Nightmareby Constance Curry , Kristina WandzilakISBN 0977761819 (0-9777618-1-9)
Softcover, Jeffers Pr
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Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighterby Constance Curry , Winson Hudson, Derrick BellISBN 1403964076 (1-4039-6407-6)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter'Book summary:In 1963, Winson Hudson finally registered to vote in Leake County, Mississippi, when she interpreted part of the state constitution by saying, It meant what it said and it said what it meant. Her first attempt had been in 1937. A lifelong native of the rural, all-black community of Harmony, Winson has lived through some of the most racially oppressive periods in her states history--and has devoted her life to combatting discrimination. With her sister Dovie, Winson filed the first lawsuit to desegregate the public schools in a rural county. Helping to establish the county NAACP chapter in 1961, Winson served as its president for 38 years. Her work has included voting rights, school desegregation, health care, government loans, telephone service, good roads, housing, and childcare--issues that were intertwined with the black freedom struggle. Winsons narrative, presented in her own words with historical background from noted author and activist Constance Curry, is both triumphant and tragic, inspiring and disturbing. It illustrates the virtually untold story of the role that African American women played in the civil rights movement at the local level in black communities throughout the South.[via]More editions of Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter:
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Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighterby Winson Hudson, Constance CurryISBN 0312295545 (0-312-29554-5)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan Limited
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Silver Rightsby Constance CurryISBN 1565120957 (1-56512-095-7)
Hardcover, Algonquin Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silver Rights'Book summary:This sure-to-be-classic account of 1960s desegregation (Los Angeles Times) tells the inspiring story of the Carters, black Mississippi sharecroppers who sent their children to integrate an all-white school system. Silver Rights is pure gold! (Julian Bond). Introduction by Marian Wright Edelman.[via]
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