First published 2011
This collection from NPR weaves together the monumental and the intimate moments of America's civil rights movement. Norris presents the familiar giants like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King alongside the March on Washington, but she also illuminates the lesser-known figures who sustained the struggle. Pullman porters carried more than luggage on their routes. The Green Book guided black travelers to safe havens. Women in Montgomery turned their kitchens into centers of resistance, baking pies to feed boycott supporters. Through personal memories and historical documentation, these stories reveal how ordinary people became extraordinary agents of change. The book captures both sweeping national transformation and quiet individual courage that made it possible.
Genres: history, 20th-century, american, african-american, non-fiction, 21st-century, american-history
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, ordinary-heroes
Setting: America, Montgomery
Period: 20th-Century, 21st-Century
3 pages · Audio CD · Highbridge Co