- History, Race relations, Civil rights, Civil rights workers
The Children is David Halberstam's moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen through the story of the young people - the Children - who met in the 1960s and went on to lead the revolution.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
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- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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- Author
- David Halberstam
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 783
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books, Random House, Fawcett Books
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780449004395
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“THE EVENTS WHICH WERE JUST ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE FIRST IN Nashville and then throughout the Deep South had been set in motion some three years earlier in February 1957, when two talented young black ministers, both of them strongly affected by the teachings of Mohandas Gandhi, had met in Oberlin, Ohio.”
David Halberstam was an American journalist and historian, known for his work on the Vietnam War, politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, and later, sports journalism. He won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1964. In 2007, while doing research for a book, Halberstam was killed in a car crash. - Wikipedia
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