{"product_id":"freedom-season-how-1963-transformed-americas-civil-rights-revolution","title":"Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution","description":"\u003cb\u003eA kaleidoscopic narrative history of 1963, the pivotal moment in America's long civil rights movement--the year of the March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr.'s \"Letter from Birmingham Jail,\" and the assassinations of Medgar Evers and John F. Kennedy\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eFreedom Season\u003c\/i\u003e, acclaimed historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a stirring narrative history of 1963, marking it as the defining year of the Black freedom struggle--a year when America faced a deluge of political strife and violence and emerged transformed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Nineteen sixty-three opened with the centenary of the Emancipation Proclamation and ended with America in a state of mourning. The months in between brought waves of racial terror, mass protest, and police repression that shocked the world, inspired radicals and reformers, and forced the hands of moderate legislators. By year's end the murders of John F. Kennedy, Medgar Evers, and four Black girls at a church in Alabama left the nation determined to imagine a new way forward. Alongside the stories of historical giants like James Baldwin and Martin Luther King Jr., Joseph uplifts the perspectives of less celebrated leaders like playwright Lorraine Hansberry and activist Gloria Richardson. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Over one heartbreakingly tumultuous year, America unraveled and remade itself as the world looked on. \u003ci\u003eFreedom Season\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the upheavals of 1963 planted the seeds for watershed civil rights legislation and renewed hope in the promise and possibility of freedom.","brand":"Peniel E Joseph","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46333757915372,"sku":"9781541675896","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781541675896.jpg?v=1743601784","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/freedom-season-how-1963-transformed-americas-civil-rights-revolution","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}