The Children, by David Halberstam (oversize HC, 1998, 783 pages, $4)
Halberstam writes of the early days of the Civil Rights movement, "as seen through the eyes of the young people- the Children- who met in the 1960s and went on to lead the revolution."
Sometimes ordinary people change history with their vision and courage. For these eight their journey would go public during the days of the Nashville sit- ins. "They came together as part of Reverend James Lawson's workshops on nonviolence, eight idealistic black students whose families had sacrificed much so that they could go to college. And they risked it all, and their lives besides, when they joined the growing civil rights movement.... Martin Luther King, Jr. recruited Lawson to come to Nashville to train students in Gandhian techniques of nonviolence."
Halberstam also catches us up to date with what happened to The Children since the 1960s. Look for this book in the African American history section, which is now in the bank vault.
