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Down to Now
Pat Watters
其他書名
Reflections on the Southern Civil Rights Movement
出版University of Georgia Press, 2012-03-01
主題History / United States / 20th CenturyPolitical Science / Civil RightsSocial Science / Discrimination & Race Relations
ISBN082033944X9780820339443
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=53r3O0VCgtkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Part history and part meditation, Down to Now is a southern journalist's intensely personal account of the civil rights movement in the South during the 1960s. As a reporter for the Atlanta Journal- Constitution and then as a writer for the Southern Regional Council, Pat Watters followed the movement from the early days of sit-ins, marches, and freedom rides through the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and the Poor People's Campaign in the summer of 1968.

First published in 1971 and written mostly from the author's own recollections, tapes, and notes, the book blends detailed reportage of the dramatic events with insightful commentary on what the movement meant and why it declined. Eloquent and compassionate, Down to Now is, in Watter's words, “a book about the movement by a white Southerner who did not participate in the movement—but whose life was essentially changed by it.”