Crossing Border Street: A Civil Rights Memoir - Softcover

Peter Jan Honigsberg is Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco.

"This valuable document of recent history is skillfully written, with a plain eloquence. Honigsberg is especially good at rendering conditions in Louisiana in the mid-Sixties. We have precious few narratives of this sort from the civil rights period, and this one will join a small, distinguished company."—Todd Gitlin, author of The Sixties

"Crossing Border Street offers a window onto the civil rights movement in the rural South during the mid-1960s and captures what it was like for a young northern volunteer to work with some of the key figures and organizations in the freedom movement in Louisiana."—Robby Cohen, New York University

“This memoir of the movement in Louisiana is a welcome addition to the literature of the civil rights struggle, serving to leaven as other memoirs have a literature too often dominated by dry, scholarly studies. The book is also welcome for the light it shines on struggles--in Louisiana in general and Bogalusa in particular--that for all their importance have been eclipsed by the attention accorded to the movement in other places.”—Doug McAdam, author of Freedom Summer

"This valuable document of recent history is skillfully written, with a plain eloquence. Honigsberg is especially good at rendering conditions in Louisiana in the mid-Sixties. We have precious few narratives of this sort from the civil rights period, and this one will join a small, distinguished company." Todd Gitlin, author of The Sixties

"Crossing Border Street offers a window onto the civil rights movement in the rural South during the mid-1960s and captures what it was like for a young northern volunteer to work with some of the key figures and organizations in the freedom movement in Louisiana." Robby Cohen, New York University

This memoir of the movement in Louisiana is a welcome addition to the literature of the civil rights struggle, serving to leaven as other memoirs have a literature too often dominated by dry, scholarly studies. The book is also welcome for the light it shines on struggles--in Louisiana in general and Bogalusa in particular--that for all their importance have been eclipsed by the attention accorded to the movement in other places. Doug McAdam, author of Freedom Summer