If Your Back's Not Bent

ISBN13：9780743296830
替代書名：If Your Back's Not Bent
出版社：Pocket Books
作者：Dorothy F. Cotton; Andrew Young (FRW); Vincent Harding (INT)
裝訂／頁數：精裝／323頁
規格：24.1cm*16.5cm*2.5cm (高/寬/厚)
出版日：2012/09/04
關鍵字： If Your Back's Not Bent、 If、 Your、 Back、 Not、 Bent、 Pocket Books、 Dorothy F. Cotton、 Andrew Young (FRW)、 Vincent Harding (INT)、外文書、 Civil & political rights、

杜威圖書分類： Civil & political rights

定價：NT$ 875 元

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“Nobody can ride your back if your back’s not bent,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said at the end of a Citizenship Education Program (CEP), an adult grassroots training program directed by Dorothy Cotton. This program, called the best-kept secret of the twentieth century’s civil rights movement, was critical in preparing legions of disenfranchised people across the South to work with existing systems of local government to gain access to services and resources they were entitled to as citizens. They learned to demonstrate peacefully against injustice, even when they were met with violence and hatred. The CEP was born out of the work of the Tennessee Highlander Folk School and was fully developed and expanded by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference led by Dr. King until that fateful day in Memphis in April 1968. Cotton was checked into the Lorraine Motel at that time as well, but she’d left to do the work of the CEP before the assassin’s bullet was fired.

If Your Back’s Not Bent recounts the accomplishments and the drama of this training that was largely ignored by the media, which had focused its attention on marches and demonstrations. This book describes who participated and how they were transformed—men and women alike—from victims to active citizens, and how they transformed their communities and ultimately the country into a place of greater freedom and justice for all. Cotton, the only woman in Dr. King’s inner circle of leadership, for the first time offers her account of the movement, correcting the historical impression that “we only marched and sang.” She shows how the CEP was key to the movement’s success, and how the lessons of the program can serve our democracy now. People, and therefore systems, can indeed change “if your back’s not bent.”

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Dorothy Cotton, a lifelong activist and visionary dedicated to social justice. She lives in Ithaca, New York, where the Dorothy Cotton Institute of Cornell University was recently launched as a tribute to her legacy.