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Lay bare the heart : an autobiography of the civil rights movement / James Farmer.

Farmer, James L., Jr. (James Leonard), 1920-1999 (Author).

Summary:

The sole survivor of the Big Four, and founder of CORE, James Farmer writes to set the record straight regarding the evolution of the civil rights movement and to document the conditions under which Black people lived prior to the movement.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0877956243
  • ISBN: 9780877956242
  • Physical Description: 370 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Arbor House ; [1985]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Publisher, dates, and paging may vary.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part One: Mississippi Revisited -- Part Two: PK (Preacher's Kid) -- Part Three: Drawing Board -- Part Four: Intellectual Coming of Age -- Part Five: Looking for a Place to Stand -- Part Six: Spreading of the Wings -- Part Seven: Cut off at the Pass -- Part Eight: The Nixon Foray -- Part Nine: Ebbtide.
Awards Note:
Lillian Smith Book Award, 1985

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Farmer, James L., Jr. (James Leonard), 1920-1999.
African Americans > Biography.
Civil rights workers > United States > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Genre:
Autobiographies.

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