Pursuing the Dream
Pursuing the Dream: From the Selma-Montgomery March to the Formation of Push (Milestones in Black American History)
- Author: Sean Dolan
- Length: 143
- Edition: Library Binding
- Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
Description of Sean Dolan, author of Pursuing the Dream:
Pursuing the Dream plunges the reader directly into the heart pounding American drama of 1965. The opening scene is Selma, Alabama; the players are the men and women who, heads held high, defied all the concentrated fury of white supremacy to march toward the rights they knew were theirs. Moving at a swift pace, this book takes a broad view of black America, from the turbulent days of Selma to the volatile 1970's. It offers a closeup view of the demonstrations and melees, the politics, sports, and music of the late 1960's. Here, too, are sharply drawn portraits of the era's principle black personalities, from civil rights giant Martin Luther King Jr., to sports sovereign Muhammad Ali to powerful writer James Baldwin to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin