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The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights Audiobook, by Thomas C. Holt Play Audiobook Sample

The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights Audiobook

The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights Audiobook, by Thomas C. Holt Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Corey Allen Publisher: Recorded Books Inc. Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 3.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.25 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: March 2021 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781705020609

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

8

Longest Chapter Length:

53:27 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

21 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

33:55 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African Americans, but it prefigured as well the moral premises and methods of struggle for other historically oppressed groups seeking equal standing in American society. And, yet, despite a vague, sometimes begrudging recognition of its immense import, more often than not the movement has been misrepresented and misunderstood. For the general public, a singular moment, frozen in time at the Lincoln Memorial, sums up much of what Americans know about that remarkable decade of struggle. In The Movement, Thomas C. Holt provides an informed and nuanced understanding of the origins, character, and objectives of the mid-twentieth-century freedom struggle, privileging the aspirations and initiatives of the ordinary, grassroots people who made it. Holt conveys a sense of these developments as a social movement, one that shaped its participants even as they shaped it. He emphasizes the conditions of possibility that enabled the heroic initiatives of the common folk over those of their more celebrated leaders. This groundbreaking book reinserts the critical concept of ""movement"" back into our image and understanding of the civil rights movement.

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About Corey Allen

Corey Allen, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, has been labeled by artistic collaborators as a “journeyman” and “chameleon-like” actor, relentless in his pursuit of truth and transformation in his work. As a voiceover artist, his talents have been heard in sound plays, commercial copy, industrial and documentary films, and many audiobooks. He is based in New York City and is a founding member of Coyote REP. He holds a BA from the University of California–Irvine and an MFA from the University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign.