My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered

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My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered
by Howell Raines
from Penguin (Non-Classics)

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• More good stories
  One of the best first hand accounts of the civil rights movement I have read. There were things in this book you will not find in the history books. A must read

• A book about the REAL heroes/heroines of Civil Rights
  A wonderful piece of work, Raines merely interviews the people from the wide and varied perspectives of the movement and gives them free rein to tell "their story" "their way" managing within this framework to lace a compelling and interesting plot around some states and some history that time and justice seemed to have forgotten.

  Seven years Raines' junior, I grew up white and a carpetbagger (from the North. . .)in Augusta, GA and I now have context for stories I was told. One among many, I knew the... more info

• One of the best books about the Civil Rights Wars!
  This book is on the list of 100 best or most influential books I've ever read--mainly because it is observant, honest, humble and direct, with no political agendas and no effete overtones. This is a title well worth re-examining some 20 years after publication. It can be browzed through at random, with something startling jumping at you on virtually every page. Or, it can be read straight through. It's quite a white-knuckle event. Many books have been written on the subject, but there's something quietly... more info

• Extraordinary account of an extraordinary time.
  Howell Raines is the new executive editor for "The New York Times," but he is at heart a writer. Both strengths come to the fore in this excellent book on the American civil rights movement. As an oral history, it necessarily contains first-hand accounts of dozens and dozens of the main (and not-so-important) players in the movement. Raines does a fine and fair job of putting their stories into essentially chronological order and editing or moving bits and pieces only where necessary to ensure good flow for... more info

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