David Margolick
Author
Publisher
RosettaBooks / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A fascinating, elegiac account of the bond between two of the Civil Rights Era s most important leaders from the journalist and author of Strange Fruit ( Chicago Tribune ). With vision and political savvy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy set the United States on a path toward fulfilling its promise of liberty and justice for all. In The Promise and the Dream , Margolick examines their unique bond, both in life and in their tragic assassinations,...
Author
Language
English
Description
The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white girl standing directly behind her, face twisted in hate, screaming racial epithets. This famous photograph captures the full anguish of desegregation in Little Rock and throughout the South, and an epic moment...