Black lives, white lives : three decades of race relations in America / [edited by] Bob Blauner.

Other author Blauner, Bob.
Format Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press, ©1989.
Descriptionxii, 347 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Racism--United States. --History. --20th century.
Racism against Black people--United States. --History. --20th century.
African Americans--Civil rights.
Interviews--United States.
Oral history.
United States--Race relations.

Contents 5050 PART ONE: 1968, Surviving the sixties - Integration or black power? The great debate - The politics of manhood and the Southern black experience - My father was from Alabama / Florence Grier - Promised land is just like the old plantation / Len Davis - I wouldn't want to treat anybody like I've been treated in Mississippi / Howard Spence - Whites on the front lines of racial conflict - Stokely Carmichael ain't no better than me / Joe Rypins - You break your neck to do something, and they give you a hard time / Gladys Hunt - Sometimes you wish you were black / Joan Keres - I was the wrong color in my black man's eyes / Virginia Lawrence - Four black women and the consciousness of the sixties - I'm tired of being scared / Florence Grier - This is no dream world, baby / Millie Harding - Those that came from a different social experience I feared / Vera Brooke - Something happened in my childhood I've never forgotten / Elena Albert - White backlash: The fear of a black majority and other nightmares - They're afraid the colored people are gonna move in and take over / Maude Wiley - The Congo nigger / George Hendrickson - We didn't have a great sense of racial awareness / William Singer - It's a strong apartheid on the street / Bill Harcliff - The whole racial thing makes me burst with sadness / Diane Harcliff - Black youth and the ghetto streets - White boys, they're always innocent / Richard Simmons - I would like to kill a white man, jut to put it on the books / Larry Dillard - The marching and demonstrations is stupid / Sarah Williams - Denying you the right to be a man / Harold Sampson -- The paradox of working-class racism - They've got the right to have every human dignity that I have / Lawrence Adams - If I can help a colored man without hurting myself, I haven't got anything to lose / Jim Corey - My oldest daughter married a black man / Dick Cunningham - Black workers: New options and old problems - The negro don't want to work / Richard Holmes - The postal system has become a negro-type job / Len Davis - Being a man is being part of the world / Mark Anthony Holder - These people had been treating me bad all my life, and I didn't know it / Jim Pettit - They call me an instigator / Frank Casey - I'd come home bitching and yelling / Carleta Reeves - This was my means of retaliating / Henry Smith.
Abstract The oral history of 16 blacks and 12 whites who fought for racial change and civil rights.
General noteInterviews with 28 persons.
General noteIncludes index.
Bibliography noteBibliography: p. 337-347.
Digital Bookplate Bookplate for Gene and Susan Roberts
Acquisitions source Joyner Rare copy gift of Gene and Susan Roberts, 2016.
LCCN 88027769
ISBN0520062612 (alk. paper)

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