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"Jonathan Daniels, a white seminary student from New Hampshire, traveled to Selma, Alabama, in 1965 to help with voter registration of black residents. After the voting rights marches, he remained in Alabama, in the area known as "Bloody Lowndes," an extremely dangerous area for white freedom fighters, to assist civil rights workers. Five months later, Jonathan Daniels was shot and killed while saving the life of Ruby Sales, a black teenager. Through Daniels's poignant letters, papers, photographs, and taped interviews, authors Rich Wallace and Sandra Neil Wallace explore what led Daniels to the moment of his death, the trial of his murderer, and how these events helped reshape both the legal and political climate of Lowndes County and the nation."--Publisher's website. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The book is full of photos, some taken by Daniels himself, which show the Civil Rights struggle and the segregationists who opposed it. I was struck by the symbols of confederate flags and nazi swastikas which are used so much today by the so called alt-right. If there is any question about the symbolism of confederate flags and monuments this book answers that.
While written for younger adults there is much that is worthwhile for those of us who are a bit older too. I find myself wondering what else Jonathan Daniels would have accomplished if his promising life had not be cut short by murder. He would be 78 this year if he had lived. ( )