Along Freedom Road

by Cecelski, David S.

• ISBN13: 9780807844373
• ISBN10: 0807844373
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

David Cecelski chronicles one of the most sustained and successful protests of the civil rights movement--the 1968-69 school boycott in Hyde County, North Carolina. For an entire year, the county's black citizens refused to send their children to school in protest of a desegregation plan that required closing two historically black schools in their remote coastal community. Parents and students held nonviolent protests daily for five months, marched twice on the state capitol in Raleigh, and drive the Ku Klux Klan out of the county in a massive gunfight.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 7
Prologue, 1954-1964	p. 17
White Folks' Ways	p. 31
Tired of Having to Bear the Burdens	p. 59
Once in Our Lifetimes	p. 83
Another Birmingham?	p. 105
the Marches to Raleigh	p. 127
the Hour of Harvest	p. 145
Epilogue	p. 163
Notes	p. 175
Manuscripts and Archival Collections	p. 207
Index	p. 225
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