An easy burden : the civil rights movement and the transformation of America

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Label

An easy burden : the civil rights movement and the transformation of America

Title remainder

the civil rights movement and the transformation of America

Statement of responsibility

Andrew Young

Creator

• Young, Andrew, 1932-

Subject

• Biography
• Biography & non-fiction prose
• Biography: general
• Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• African Americans -- Civil rights
• Ethnic studies
• Human rights, civil rights
• Young, Andrew, 1932-
• Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

Andrew Young is a civil rights leader and was a friend and right hand man to Martin Luther King. This is his long awaited memoir - which comes at a time when Young's rare historical insight and vision are more desperately needed than ever.

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 323.092
• B
• 323.1'1'96073'092
• 323.119607

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E840.8.Y64

LC item number

A3 1996

Literary form

non fiction

Summary expansion

This work charts the civil rights movement from the NACCP philosophy and middle-class aspirations of the author's parents' generation, to the non-violent direct-action approach of Martin Luther King, through the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and the relationship between King and both men, who struggled between their desire to do right and their passion to win the South. Andrew Young discusses the extent of FBI harassment of King and others and the violence of their reaction to King's anti-Vietnam War stance. He portrays the aftermath of King's death and his own decision to try to effect change from the inside, by entering the new frontier of politics.;Andrew Young has been at the centre of the civil rights movement since its infancy, and was a right-hand-man to Martin Luther King