With Music and Justice for All

Frye Gaillard

Description

For nearly forty years, Frye Gaillard has covered the American South as a journalist, historian and writer of memoir. With Music and Justice for All is a collection of Gaillard's most compelling work, one writer's odyssey though a time and place. There are stories here of the civil rights movement, a moral, social and political upheaval that changed the South in so many ways. Gaillard has captured the essence of that drama by giving it a face--telling the stories of the ordinary people, as well as the icons. In the course of these pages, the reader not only meets Dr. Martin Luther King, but also the lesser known heroes such Perry Wallace--the first African American basketball player in the Southeastern Conference and Thomas Gilmore, the first black sheriff in one of the toughest counties in the Alabama Black Belt, a man of non-violence, who refused, in deference to the fallen Dr. King, to carry a gun during the thirteen years he served as sheriff.

But Gaillard examines the South from other angles as well--the religious heritage, for example, that once led Flannery O'Connor to write about a "Christ-haunted" South. We meet Billy Graham, the greatest evangelist of his time, who admitted in the course of interviews with Gaillard that his ministry represented a "very narrow gift." There are profiles here of the Southern Baptist renegade Will Campbell and former President Jimmy Carter, whose commitment to his own understanding of Christianity has sometimes led him into controversy. Gaillard writes also about the revealing power of Southern music--how the great Johnny Cash, for example, became a force for reconciliation in America. In the final section of the book we meet some of the characters Gaillard has covered through the years, including John T. Scopes, whose final public appearance Gaillard wrote about as a young reporter in Nashville.

Sujets

• Histoire
• Literature
• State
• South
• History of the United States
• United States
• History
• Local

Informations

• Publié par: Vanderbilt University Press
• Date de parution: 24 mars 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780826592408
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

With Music and Justice for All

With Music and Justice for All

Some Southerners and Their Passions

Frye Gaillard

Vanderbilt University Press • nashville

© 2008 Fyé Gàîà Puîŝhé y Vàéî Uîéŝîy Péŝŝ A îhŝ éŝéé Fîŝ Eîîô 2008

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îày ôf Côéŝŝ Cààôî-î-Puîcàîô Dàà Gàîà, Fyé, 1946 – Wîh muŝîc à juŝîcé fô à : ŝômé ŝôuhééŝ à héî pàŝŝîôŝ / Fyé Gàîà. — 1ŝ é.  p. cm. ïSBN 978-0-8265-1588-9 (côh : àk. pàpé) 1. Sôuhé Sàéŝ—Cîîîzàîô. 2. Sôuhé Sàéŝ—Bîôàphy. ï. Tîé. F209.G25 2008 975’.043—c22  2007033183

To the memory of Judge Water Gaîard, wîth gratîtude for hîs egacy of faîrness

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Péfàcé ix ïôucîô: Thé Héà ôf Dîxîé  1

Part I “A Change Is Gonna Come”  Déîéàcé: Thé Gééŝôô Fôu 13  Thé Pôwé à hé Gôy ôf à Tuà Fîŝh Sàwîch 25  Péy Wààcé: Thé ô Rôà Hômé  33  Thé Shéîff Wîhôu à Gu  45  RFK: A Nîh à Vàéî  56  Féé à àŝ, Féé à àŝ  61

Part II “Amazing Grace”  Thé Gôŝpé Accôî ô Wî  69  Thé Dôué-Eé éàcy ôf Bîy Gàhàm  85  Chàôé’ŝ Hôy Wàŝ: Réîîô î à Néw Sôuh Cîy  93  Thé ôéy Cuŝàé ôf Kàé Gàhàm  106  Kôîôîà: Thé Bîh ôf Hàîà fô Humàîy  113  Thé îô’ŝ Dé à Jîmmy Càé  121

Part III Soundtracks  Thé Mà î Bàck  133  Sôuhé Rôck: Thé Néw Gôô Oé Bôyŝ  141  O-Fàŝhîôé Nôîôŝ ôf ôé à Muŝîc  152  Côuy Quééŝ  160  Wîh Muŝîc à Juŝîcé fô A  170

Part IV Characters  A Vîŝî wîh Jôh T. Scôpéŝ  179  Jàméŝ Bàwî’ŝ Fîŝ Jôuéy Sôuh  186  Thé Mày Cuŝàéŝ ôf Tîppé Gôé  193  Thé Eucàîô ôf Rôé Hôwà Aé  205  Pîé à Péjuîcé  214  Thé àŝ Côféŝŝîô  220

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