Witness to the Truth: My Strugle for Human Rights in Louisiana: John H. Scott's Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana - Softcover

John H. Scott; Cleo Scott Brown

 
9781570038181: Witness to the Truth: My Strugle for Human Rights in Louisiana: John H. Scott's Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana
Softcover
ISBN 10: 157003818X ISBN 13: 9781570038181
Verlag: UNIV OF SOUTH CAROLINA PR, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Witness to the Truth tells the extraordinary life story of a grassroots human rights leader and his courageous campaign to win the right to vote for the African Americans of Lake Providence, Louisiana. Born in 1901 in a small, mostly black parish, John H. Scott grew up in a community where black businesses, schools, and neighborhoods thrived in isolation, yet African Americans were still being denied a voice in local and national politics. Scott, a minister and farmer, sought to redress this inequality. Ultimately convincing Attorney General Robert Kennedy to participate in his crusade, Scott led a twenty-five year struggle that illustrates how persistent efforts by local citizens translated into a national movement. Cleo Scott Brown, Scott's daughter, draws on oral history interviews with her father conducted by historian Joseph Logsdon as well as personal papers, court transcripts, records of the East Carroll chapter of the NAACP, interviews with other East Carroll residents, family recollections, and her own conversations with her father as the basis for this narrative.

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Witness to the Truth is a spellbinding, autobiographical account of John Henry Scott's involvement in the civil rights struggle. It documents America's history in important new ways, providing facts and lessons unknown to current generations. The heroism of thousands who are not remembered energized the movementpeople like Scott, Francis Joseph Atlas, and others in this book. Nationally famous civil rights leaders did much, but they are symbolic surrogates for this vast army of unsung heroes whose families suffered constant peril.

Cleo Scott Brown has provided scholars, historians, and others interested in the civil rights movement a wonderful account of her father's grassroots leadership. By publishing this wonderful, insightful, and timely story, Brown shows us how Scott, who suffered the indignities of racism and the terror of white oppression, fought to win voting rights for African Americans in Louisiana and challenged and overcame an oppressive system that sought to make African Americans permanent second class citizens. Spanning over 100 years, Scott's story is a very important epic in the historiography of the American civil rights movement.

Cleo Scott Brown worked for six years to gather and present the story told in Witness to the Truth. A graduate of Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana, she also attended Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Brown is employed as a risk manager for a public utility company and serves on the board of the J. H. Scott Memorial Fund, which provides scholarships to students who live in impoverished areas of northeast Louisiana. Brown now lives in Goose Creek, South Carolina.

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The inspirational saga of one man�s fight to enfranchise his community

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The inspirational saga of one man?s fight to enfranchise his community

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Verlag
UNIV OF SOUTH CAROLINA PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
157003818X
ISBN 13 
9781570038181
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Anzahl der Seiten
294
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