{"product_id":"9780375758812","title":"Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA literary anthology of important and artful interpretations of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, past and present—including pieces by Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and John Lewis \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditor Jon Meacham has chosen pieces by journalists, novelists, historians, and artists, bringing together a wide range of perspectives and experiences. The result is an unprecedented and powerful portrait of the movement’s spirit and struggle, told through voices that resonate with passion and strength.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaya Angelou takes us on a poignant journey back to her childhood in the Arkansas of the 1930s. On the front page of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, James Reston marks the movement’s apex as he describes what it was like to watch Martin Luther King, Jr., deliver his heralded “I Have a Dream” speech in real time. Alice Walker takes up the movement’s progress a decade later in her article “Choosing to Stay at Home: Ten Years After the March on Washington.” And John Lewis chronicles the unimaginable courage of the ordinary African Americans who challenged the prevailing order, paid for it in blood and tears, and justly triumphed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVoices in Our Blood\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling look at the movement as it actually happened, from the days leading up to World War II to the anxieties and ambiguities of this new century. The story of race in America is a never-ending one, and \u003ci\u003eVoices in Our Blood\u003c\/i\u003e tells us how we got this far—and how far we still have to go to reach the Promised Land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eVoices in Our Blood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Jon Meacham . . . has done about the best job of anthologizing the movement that I’ve ever seen.”\u003cb\u003e—Tom Wicker, \u003ci\u003eMother Jones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Compelling . . . Acting as a maestro for an orchestra of gifted writers, Meacham succeeds at transporting the reader to the confused heart of American race relations, down to the core of the misunderstandings, the invitations to hate, and the violence.”\u003cb\u003e—Juan Williams, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A collection of first-rate writings by gifted authors on America’s struggle for racial justice.”\u003cb\u003e—James Ralph, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The writing in this collection sparkles.”\u003cb\u003e—Robert Joiner, \u003ci\u003eSt. Louis Post-Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049105768688,"sku":"9780375758812","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780375758812_p0.jpg?v=1763692763","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780375758812","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}