Of the leaders of the civil rights movement, no other figure approached the significance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His speech at the 1963 March on Washington has come to symbolize the hardships and victories of an entire era. But in revering the memory of a great man, we sometimes lose sight of the many local and less glamorous struggles, both personal and social, and the world against which they were fought. In We Shall Overcome, America's leading scholars and activists from the civil rights years speak on a fascinating range of experiences surrounding King and his era, from his early personal religious conversion to his impact on the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa; from his place in the history of the African-American church to the rise in Third World liberation struggles.The impressive group of contributors—including John Hope Franklin, David Garrow, Coretta Scott King, Nathan Huggins, Mary Frances Berry, Cornel West, Aldon D. Morris, Howard Zinn, and others—gathered in October 1986 at a conference in Washington, D.C. This book consists of their presentations, specially prepared for publication, with added personal statements about their relationships to Dr. King and the movement, and about their own lives. The result is not only an important, wide-ranging work of history, but a moving testimonial to a great leader.

We Shall Overcome

Politics & Social Sciences

Hoffman, Ronald

Albert, Peter J.

Social Sciences

Da Capo Press

Black activists and scholars offer observations and analyses of the life of Martin Luther King, jr., the civil rights movement, and its impact on recent American history

WE SHALL OVERCOME: THE LEGACY

History

Pantheon

This compelling collection of correspondence between a father and a son documents the history of eighteenth-century America through the intimate story of a family and the journey from boyhood to political prominence of its most illustrious member, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. Beginning in the late 1740s, when "Papa" (Charles Carroll of Annapolis) sent "Charley" (Charles Carroll of Carrollton) away from his native Maryland to be educated in Europe, the letters present a new perspective on colonial and Revolutionary America as the lived experience of Roman Catholics, whose defiant adherence to their faith denied them the civil rights and guarantees--including the right to hold office and to vote--that their Protestant counterparts enjoyed. This context accentuates the drama of Charley's rise to power during the Revolution, the necessity of the political and economic compromises he felt compelled to make, and the ultimately tragic personal price exacted by his success. Bringing the Carroll's public and private lives sharply into focus, these volumes present the past in its fullest human dimensions.

Dear Papa, Dear Charley: The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat, as Told by Charles Carroll of Carrollton and His Father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis, with Sundry Observations on Bastardy, Child-Rearing, Romance, Matrimony, Commerce, Tobacco, Slavery, and the Politics of Revolutionary America

Mason, Sally D.

Darcy, Eleanor S.

Biographies & Memoirs

Omohundro Institute and UNC Press

Charles Carroll of Carrollton is most often remembered as the sole Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. In this monumental study of the Carrolls in Ireland and America, that act vindicates a family's determination to triumph without compromising lineage and faith. Ronald Hoffman peels back layer after layer of Carroll family history, from dispossession in Ireland to prosperity and prominence in America. Driven to emigrate by England's devastating anti-Catholic policies, the first Carroll brought to Maryland an iron determination to reconstitute his family and fortune. He found instead an increasingly militant Protestant society that ultimately disenfranchised Catholics and threatened their wealth and property. Confronting religious antagonisms like those that had destroyed their Irish ancestors, this Carroll and his descendants founded a fortune--and a dynasty that risked everything by allying with the American Revolutionary cause. Meeting each crisis with a tenacious will to survive and prevail, the Carrolls earned an esteemed place in the new nation. Hoffman balances private lives against their contentious public role in American history. The journey from Irish rebels to American revolutionaries shaped and shattered the Carrolls--and then remade them into one of the first families of the Republic.

Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782

Historical

In August 2007, the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture convened an international conference in the Republic of Ghana to consider the consequences of decisions made and implemented by the governments of Denmark, Great Britain, and the United States between 1792 and 1808 to end their participation in the Atlantic slave trade. The first pan-African congress of historians held on that continent since 1961, the four-day conference included 300 scholars, students, and other participants from twenty-three different countries, more than half in sub-Saharan Africa. This two-disc DVD set is drawn from that meeting, which began as an idea for an academic conference and became a transformative experience. "The bloody Writing is for ever torn" is set in Elmina and Cape Coast castles, two restored sixteenth-century slave trading forts from which 1.8 million enslaved people were transported to the Americas and the Caribbean between 1500 and 1867. In words and through cultural performances, this film captures multiple understandings of a painful, fiercely contested past and the sharing of historical knowledge and lived experience that characterized the conference. The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Origins, Effects, and Legacies combines a distillation of some of the meeting's sharply different scholarly perspectives and interpretations with compelling images and graphics in a format specifically designed for classroom use. The DVD is accompanied by a film text and a teacher's guide.

"The bloody Writing is for ever torn" (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

Diplomacy and Revolution: The Franco-American Alliance of 1778

Americas

Univ of Virginia Pr

Women in the Age of the American Revolution (Perspectives on the American Revolution)

Hoffman, Ronald and Peter J. Albert, eds., Women in the Age of the American Revolution

Of Consuming Interests: The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century (Perspectives on the American Revolution)

Book by Carson, Cary, Hoffman, Ronald

Carson, Cary

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We Shall Overcome

WE SHALL OVERCOME: THE LEGACY

Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782

"The bloody Writing is for ever torn" (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)

Diplomacy and Revolution: The Franco-American Alliance of 1778

Women in the Age of the American Revolution (Perspectives on the American Revolution)

Women in the Age of the American Revolution (Perspectives on the American Revolution)

Of Consuming Interests: The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century (Perspectives on the American Revolution)

Of Consuming Interests: The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century (Perspectives on the American Revolution)