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Freedom Days: 365 Inspired Moments in Civil Rights History
by Janus Adams

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1998
$22.95 hardcover
$14.95 trade paper
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Celebrate the heroic individuals, dramatic turning points, and exultant moments of triumph that defined the struggle for Civil Rights in America and independence throughout the African Diaspora. Here are 365 stories that forged the Freedom Days. Some are poignant, some are powerful; all are illuminating, evocative, and inspiring.

Discover the days that:

  • Maya Angelou, actress, journalist, and Civil Rights activist, stuns the world with her memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

  • Actor and writer Ossie Davis delivers his moving eulogy of Malcolm X, proclaiming him “a Prince – our own Black shining Prince! – who did not hesitate to die, because he loved us so.”

  • Confined to a narrow jail cell, Martin Luther King Jr. begins writing in the margins of a newspaper. His “Letter from a Birmingham City Jail” will become known throughout the world as a classic of protest literature.

  • Zora Neale Hurston emerges from seven intense weeks of work on a novel. The results is her masterpiece, Their Eyes Were Watching God.

  • After twenty-two amazing years in the Negro Leagues, legendary pitcher Satchel Paige is finally admitted into the major leagues. The Hall of Famer’s lifetime record: an astounding 2,600 games, 300 shutouts, and 55 no-hitters.

  • Berry Gordy goes from featherweight boxer to heavyweight business champ with the start of the Motown Sound.

  • One lone child, Elizabeth Eckford, braves an angry mob in the landmark confrontation over desegregation at Little Rock, Arkansas’s Central High.

  • Roots author Alex Haley stands on the dock overlooking Annapolis harbor in Maryland where, two centuries before to the day, his African great-great-great-great-great grandfather stood in chains.

Freedom Days offers daily affirmation of how acts of faith and daring can and do make a difference. Let these shining examples illuminate your future.

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