A Day I Ain't Never Seen Before: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi by Joe Bateman, Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
2023 | ISBN: 0820363030, 0820363049 | English | 310 pages | PDF | 10 MB
The Black people of Marks, Mississippi, and other rural southern towns were the backbone of the civil rights movement, yet their stories have too rarely been celebrated and are, for the most part, forgotten. Part memoir, part oral history, and part historical study, A Day I Ain't Never Seen Before tells the story of the struggle for equality and dignity through the words of these largely unknown men and women and the civil rights workers who joined them. Deeply rooted in documentary and archival sources, this book also offers extensive suggestions for further readings on both Marks and the civil rights movement.