Bøger af Patricia Sullivan

Bobby Kennedy wasn¿t the most visible figure in the civil rights movement, but his impact was transformative. As attorney general, he protected the Freedom Riders and turned the Justice Department from an enemy of civil rights into an enforcer of antiracist policies. Patricia Sullivan gives Kennedy his rightful place as a force for racial justice.

The Inwood apartment looks out over the Circle Line, where boats and skiffs maneuver through Spuyten Duyvil Creek before sailing under the Henry Hudson Bridge and heading into the Hudson River. It is a scene Sheila McGowan knows well. Pregnant with her fourth child, Sheila worries about its well-being. The doctors recommend she undergo amniocentesis, but she's not sure she wants to. She's also not sure the family should abandon its much-loved Inwood apartment in favor of a larger house in a potentially less friendly and less park-like neighborhood. Inwood - As The Circle Line Sailed By captures the lives of the McGowan family as its members deal with the challenges and joys of daily life in Manhattan during the 1970s. Happy in the peaceful Inwood community, the McGowans enjoy the Yonkers feis, where the McGowan children participate in music and dance competitions. As arsonists stalk the South Bronx and the nation celebrates the bicentennial, the McGowans ponder their future. In this love song to a special neighborhood, author Patricia Sullivan recreates Inwood's idyllic parks, sense of community, and history. Take a stroll in Inwood with the McGowans - and step back to a simpler time.

In the 1930s and 1940s, a loose alliance of blacks and whites, individuals and organizations, came together to offer a radical alternative to southern conservative politics. The author traces the rise and fall of this movement.

A civil rights Hall of Fame (Kirkus) that was published to remarkable praise in conjunction with the NAACPs Centennial Celebration, Lift Every Voice is a momentous history of the struggle for civil rights told through the stories of men and women who fought inescapable racial barriers in the North as well as the Southkeeping the promise of democracy alive from the earliest days of the twentieth century to the triumphs of the 1950s and 1960s.Historian Patricia Sullivan unearths the little-known early decades of the NAACPs activism, telling startling stories of personal bravery, legal brilliance, and political maneuvering by the likes of W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Walter White, Charles Houston, Ella Baker, Thurgood Marshall, and Roy Wilkins. In the critical post-war era, following a string of legal victories culminating in Brown v. Board, the NAACP knocked out the legal underpinnings of the segregation system and set the stage for the final assault on Jim Crow.A sweeping and dramatic story woven deep into the fabric of American historyhistory that helped shape Americas consciousness, if not its soul (Booklist) Lift Every Voice offers a timeless lesson on how people, without access to the traditional levers of power, can create change under seemingly impossible odds.