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Remember Henry Harris : lost icon of a revolution : a story of hope and self-sacrifice

Title

Remember Henry Harris : lost icon of a revolution : a story of hope and self-sacrifice / Sam Heys.

Author

Heys, Sam

Publication

[Alabama?] : Black Belt Press, [2019]
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Description

355 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"After the freedom rides ended, after the bus boycotts and sit-ins, the marches and protests, and long after the TV cameras and federal marshals packed up and went home, Henry Harris enrolled at Auburn University, alone in a dormitory of one hundred and fifty white southern males high on testosterone. Harris was the first African American on athletic scholarship at Auburn and, more importantly, the first black athlete at any SEC school in the Deep South. An exceptional basketball player, he was valedictorian of all-black Greene County Training School in Boligee, Alabama. It was 1968 and the spring Martin Luther King was murdered--only two weeks after speaking at a rally in Greene County. It was an extraordinary time, and Harris decided to make his life matter by going to Auburn. He was the seeming quintessential candidate for integration, but nothing could have prepared him for the next four years. Fourteen years after Brown v. Board Education, he still had not satin a classroom with a white person. Sam Heys's curiosity about Harris's life deepened the night in 1974 that he ripped an article from a newswire printer and read four paragraphs reporting Harris's suicide at twenty-four. The details were scarce, and the story was missing all the "whys." Heys fills in the facts, answers the questions, and traces Harris's extraordinary passage from an abandoned store in tiny Boligee, Alabama, to a rooftop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a journey that helped revolutionize the South and America." --

Alternative Title

Lost icon of a revolution : a story of hope and self-sacrifice
Story of hope and self-sacrifice

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies.
History.

Note

Title from cover.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-355).

Language (note)

In English.

Contents

1. April 18, 1974 -- 2. Edge of America -- 3. Good soldiers -- 4. Regardless of color -- 5. We are not afraid -- 6. A boy and a hoop -- 7. The hope for years to come -- 8. Sport v. South -- 9. Send me -- 10. Forerunners -- 11. Trespassing -- 12. Now it's the struggle -- 13. Message and messenger -- 14. "Watch for Harris" -- 15. Summer 1969 -- 16. Change agent -- 17. Captain America -- 18. Gone -- 19. Ghost man -- 20. Saving face -- 21. Hell to pay -- 22. Workhorse -- 23. Not who you think I am -- 24. 'Nigger Corner' -- 25. Everything is everything -- 26. Wounded warrior -- 27. Hero -- 28. The fight we've been looking for -- 29. Systematic lynching -- 30. Slashed tires and fires -- 31. Leaving Alabama -- 32. Summer in Harrisburg -- 33. Milwaukee -- 34. Swept away -- 35. Big chill -- 36. A Black prince comes home -- 37. Doubt -- 38. The weight -- 39. Left behind -- 40. The lion in winter -- 41. Dream deferred.

Call Number

Sc E 20-686

ISBN

9780578565781
0578565781

OCLC

1137729218

Author

Heys, Sam, author.

Title

Remember Henry Harris : lost icon of a revolution : a story of hope and self-sacrifice / Sam Heys.

Publisher

[Alabama?] : Black Belt Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-355).

Language

In English.

Research Call Number

Sc E 20-686

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