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Crossing Border Street : a civil rights memoir

Title: Crossing Border Street : a civil rights memoir / Peter Jan Honigsberg.
Author: Honigsberg, Peter Jan.
Publication: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000.

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Description

xv, 177 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Honigsberg's narrative conveys the emotions and personal dangers activists faced and examines the work of three charismatic black leaders: A.Z. Young, Robert Hicks, and Gayle Jenkins. He describes how the Deacons worked with the Bogalusa Voters League to boycott the white owned businesses in the downtown area and to integrate the local schools, restaurants, parks, and paper mill. He also relates the story of Gary Duncan, a black man charged with battery for touching a white boy in Plaquemines Parish, the fiefdom of arch-segregationist Leander Perez. Honigsberg was part of the team that took the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and eventually established the constitutional right to a jury trial."
"Honigsberg considers the impact of the change that occurred in the fall of 1967, when Martin Luther King's dream of blacks and whites working together in a cooperative partnership gave way to the new cry of "Black Power." His memoir provides a glimpse into the civil rights movement and those who were forever changed by its struggle for human dignity and vision of racial justice and equality."--Jacket.

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Genre/Form

Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-170) and index.

Contents

From the Subway to Mississippi -- Armed Escorts -- Klan Violence and the Deacons -- First Cousins -- Evenings at Cozy Corners -- Stepping off the Sidelines -- Welcome to New Orleans -- Litigating the End to Segregation -- Hiroshima Vigil -- Slave Quarters on Royal Street -- An Unwarranted Touching -- Louisiana Justice -- Jailhouse Fears -- Sobol v Perez -- "Throw Me Something, Mister" -- Unsettling Experiences -- "We'll Bring Your Freedom Back to You" -- Moving On.

ISBN

0520221478
9780520221475
0520234596
9780520234598

LCCN

99087300

OCLC

ocm43115105
43115105
SCSB-1128741

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library