The education of a Black radical : a Southern civil rights activist's journey, 1959-1964 / D'Army Bailey ; with Roger Easson ; foreword by Nikki Giovanni.
Publication Info.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2009]
xiv, 237 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note
Includes index.
Contents
Growing up in Memphis -- On to Scotlandville -- Protest comes to Scotlandville -- Klieg lights and microphones -- How to kill a protest -- Encounters of the NSA kind -- NSA summer camp transformations -- Singing in the tear gas -- Arrested development -- An offensive Christmas -- Eye to eye with the enemy -- Expulsion, dismissal -- Turning the page -- A siege mentality -- The journey home -- Radical is as radical does -- The L-word -- Provocateur -- The original X man -- Brother Rat -- DARE -- Encounters of the first kind -- DARE in action -- The March on Washington -- A bona fide Negro.
