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Genre/Form: | Nonfiction Biographies History Local history Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Cobb, Charles E., Jr. On the road to freedom. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2008 (OCoLC)608437308 |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles E Cobb, Jr. |
ISBN: | 9781565124394 1565124391 |
OCLC Number: | 132581825 |
Description: | xxv, 388 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Author's note -- ch. 1. My country 'tis of thee : Washington, D.C. -- ch. 2. Up South : Annapolis, Cambridge, and Baltimore, Maryland -- ch. 3. Don't carry me back : Arlington and Alexandria, Richmond, Hampton, Farmville, and Danville, Virginia -- ch. 4. More than a hamburger : Greensboro, Raleigh, and Durham, North Carolina -- ch. 5. I'll overcome : Charleston, Columbia, Rock Hill, Orangeburg, and Clarendon County, South Carolina -- ch. 6. ... On my mind: Atlanta, Albany, and Savannah, Georgia -- ch. 7. Look backward, move forward : Montgomery, Selma, Lowndes County, Perry County, and Birmingham, Alabama -- ch. 8. Don't know how we were so brave : Jackson, Philadelphia, McComb, Greenwood, and Ruleville, Mississippi -- ch. 9. Full circle : Nashville, Knoxville, and Memphis, Tennessee -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Permissions and credits -- Index. |
Responsibility: | by Charles E. Cobb, Jr. |
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Abstract:
Guides readers through Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, back to the real grassroots of the movement. This book includes maps, photographs, and sidebars of background history, newspaper coverage, and interviews.
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On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail is another chance for us to learn, remember and be proud of a group of people who struggled to make changes without seeing what vacation days we have. . . . Cobb's book will certainly make you think about places you are familiar with where change happened and how it affected you."-- The State Read more...
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