Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement

by Jon Meacham (Editor)

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A collection of excerpts and essays by a variety of writers examines the history of the civil rights movement, its leaders, and its long-term implications for affirmative action and racial relations in America.

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Jon Meacham was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on May 20, 1969. He received a degree in English literature at the University of the South. He joined Newsweek as a writer in 1995. Three years later, at the age of 29, he was promoted to managing editor, supervising coverage of politics, international affairs, and breaking news. In 2006, he was show more promoted to editor at Newsweek. He is currently an executive editor at Random House. He won the Pulitzer Prize for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House in 2009. His other works include Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship, American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation. In 2001, he edited Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement. In 2013 his title Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power made The New York Times Best Seller List. In 2015 Meacham's title Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush made The New York Times Best Seller List. His most recent book is entitled The Soul of America: The Battle for our Better Angels (2018). show less

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Original publication date
2001
Important places
USA
Important events
African-American Civil Rights Movement
Original language
English

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Nonfiction, History, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
973.0496073History & geographyHistory of North AmericaUnited StatesUnited StatesEthnic And National GroupsOther GroupsAfrican AmericansAfrican Americans
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E185.61 .V744History of the United StatesUnited StatesElements in the populationAfro-AmericansStatus and development since emancipation
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