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The Rest of the Dream Wade Hall

The Rest of the Dream By Wade Hall

The Rest of the Dream by Wade Hall


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In The Rest of the Dream, Lyman Johnson, grassroots civil rights leader, tells his own story. Johnson's graphic recall of people and incidents and his storyteller's talent for narrative make this record of a unique American life filled with suspense, humor, tragedy, and triumph.

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The Rest of the Dream: The Black Odyssey of Lyman Johnson by Wade Hall

In The Rest of the Dream, Lyman Johnson, grassroots civil rights leader, tells his own story. All four of Johnson's grandparents were slaves in Tennessee. Yet his father was a college graduate, principal of a black school, and the inspiration for his son's love of justice. Lyman Johnson was born in 1906 during the darkest days of segregation. He learned from his father not to sit in the crow's nest reserved for blacks in his hometown movie theater. This refusal to accept second-class citizenship became a guiding principle in Johnson's life. Johnson was almost forty-three when he won admission to graduate study at the University of Kentucky in 1949. Crosses were burned on campus. Because of his family commitments, he returned to his teaching position in Louisville and never completed his doctorate. Thirty years later the university that fought to keep him out awarded him an honorary doctor of letters degree. Johnson earned his doctorate the hard way -- by saying no to the crow's nest and other marks of inequality. Johnson's graphic recall of people and incidents and his storyteller's talent for narrative make this record of a unique American life filled with suspense, humor, tragedy, and triumph.

Table of Contents

Into the Bluegrass America Bourne Seizing Freedom From the Silence and the Darkness, 1865-1869 The New Order of Things, 1870-1874 Learning to Ride and Taking Flight, 1875-1880 An Elegant Specimen of Manhood, 1881-1889 In This Peculiar Country, 1890-1895 Fin 1896

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CIN0813116740G
9780813116747
0813116740
The Rest of the Dream: The Black Odyssey of Lyman Johnson by Wade Hall
Used - Good
Hardback
The University Press of Kentucky
19881117
256
N/A
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