My Soul Is Rested

<b>A superb oral history. --<i>The Washington Post Book World <p/></i>So touching so exhilarating...no book for a long time has left me so moved or so happy. --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b> <p/>The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. Here are the voices of leaders and followers of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence. From the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 to the death of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 these are the people who fought the epic battle: Rosa Parks Andrew Young Ralph Abernathy Hosea Williams Fannie Lou Hamer and others both black and white who participated in sit-ins Freedom Rides voter drives and campaigns for school and university integration. <p/>Here too are voices from the Down-Home Resistance that supported George Wallace Bull Connor and the traditions of the Old South--voices that conjure up the frightening terrain on which the battle was fought. <i>My Soul Is Rested</i> is a powerful document of social and political history as well as a magnificent tribute to those who made history happen.