My Soul Is Rested: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South

"A superb oral history." —The Washington Post Book World

"So touching, so exhilarating...no book for a long time has left me so moved or so happy." —The New York Times Book Review

The almost unfathomable courage and the undying faith that propelled the Civil Rights Movement are brilliantly captured in these moving personal recollections. Here are the voices of leaders and followers, of ordinary people who became extraordinary in the face of turmoil and violence. From the Montgomery Bus Boycot...