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We Shall Not Be Moved: The Jackson Woolworth’s Sit-In and the Movement It Inspired

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Once in a great whilst, a certain photograph captures the essence of an era: Three people–one black and two white–demonstrate for equality at a lunch counter whilst a horde of cigarette-smoking hotshots pour catsup, sugar, and other condiments on the protesters’ heads and down their backs. This iconic image strikes a chord for all who lived through those turbulent times of a changing The united states.

The photograph, which plays a central role in the book’s perspectives from frontline participants, caught a moment when the raw virulence of racism crashed against the defiance of visionaries. It now shows up steadily in books, magazines, videos, and museums that endeavor to give an explanation for The united states’s in large part nonviolent civil rights battles of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Yet for the entire photograph’s prominence, the people in it and the events they inspired have only been sketched in civil rights histories. It’s not well known, for example, that it was once this event that sparked to life the civil rights movement in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1963. Sadly, this same sit down-in and the protest events it inspired led to the assassination of Medgar Evers, who was once leading the charge in Jackson for the NAACP.

Winner of the 2014 Lillian Smith Book Award, We Shall Not Be Moved puts the Jackson Woolworth’s sit down-in into historical context. Part multifaceted biography, part well-researched history, this gripping narrative explores the hearts and minds of those participating in this harrowing sit down-in experience. It was once a demonstration without precedent in Mississippi–one that set the stage for much that would follow in the changing dynamics of the state’s racial politics, particularly in its capital city.

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