"Weary Feet, Rested Souls is a valuable and beautiful road map to a landscape we must not forget."—Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund
Thirty years after the Civil Rights Movement transformed America, Weary Feet, Rested Souls brings the landscape of this compelling period of history back to life. Logging 30,000 miles of research and more than 100 hours of interviews with Civil Rights veterans, Townsend Davis has written both a history of the struggle and an indispensable traveler's guidebook to Civil Rights in the Deep South. Ranging from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s childhood neighborhood to Philadelphia, Mississippi, where three Civil Rights workers were murdered, to Selma and Birmingham and scores of other sites, Weary Feet, Rested Souls is a uniquely inspiring and deeply commemorative guide to the Movement and its heroes.
| Common Acronyms | 9 | |
| Introduction | 11 | |
| Acknowledgments | 17 | |
| Alabama | ||
| Montgomery: The Bus Boycott and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 21 | |
| Birmingham: From "Bombingham" to Project C | 53 | |
| Selma: Bloody Sunday and the March to Montgomery | 88 | |
| Perry County: The Martyrdom of Jimmie Lee Jackson | 121 | |
| Lowndes County: Birth of the Black Panther | 124 | |
| Arkansas | ||
| Little Rock: Federal Troops Escort the Little Rock Nine | 133 | |
| Georgia | ||
| Atlanta: Leadership from Sweet Auburn to West Hunter | 139 | |
| Albany: Putting the Plantation to the Test | 162 | |
| Savannah: Local Movement by the Sea | 179 | |
| Mississippi | ||
| General: Transformation of the Magnolia State | 191 | |
| Jackson: Capital in the Eye of the Storm | 205 | |
| McComb: Moses Leads the First Mass Voting Drive | 230 | |
| Oxford: Jeeps on the Campus of Ole Miss | 243 | |
| The Delta: Outposts in the Land of the Lost | 250 | |
| Greenwood: Hard Lessons in the Delta | 271 | |
| Meridian: The Final Days of Chaney and Schwerner | 286 | |
| Philadelphia: A Search Leads to an Earthen Dam | 291 | |
| Hattiesburg: Vernon Dahmer's Courageous Stand | 299 | |
| North Carolina | ||
| Greensboro: More than a Cup of Coffee | 309 | |
| Raleigh: The Rise and Fall of SNCC | 313 | |
| South Carolina | ||
| Charleston/Johns Island: The Citizenship Schools | 319 | |
| Orangeburg: The Other Kent State | 331 | |
| Tennessee | ||
| New Market: Movement Haven in the Mountains | 343 | |
| Nashville: The University of Nonviolence | 347 | |
| Memphis: A Strike for Dignity - Assassination | 361 | |
| Chronology | 381 | |
| Civil Rights Laws | 385 | |
| App: Map Index | 387 | |
| App | The Historical Sites | 389 |
| Endnotes | 401 | |
| Selected Sources | 403 | |
| Index | 420 |
Overview
"Weary Feet, Rested Souls is a valuable and beautiful road map to a landscape we must not forget."—Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund
Thirty years after the Civil Rights Movement transformed America, Weary Feet, Rested Souls brings the landscape of this compelling period of history back to life. Logging 30,000 miles of research and more than 100 hours of interviews with Civil Rights veterans, Townsend Davis has written both a history of the struggle ...