Crossing Border Street : a civil rights memoir

Title
  1. Crossing Border Street : a civil rights memoir / Peter Jan Honigsberg.
Published by
  1. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000.
Author
  1. Honigsberg, Peter Jan.

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Description
  1. xv, 177 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "Honigsberg's narrative conveys the emotions and personal dangers activists faced and examines the work of three charismatic black leaders: A.Z. Young, Robert Hicks, and Gayle Jenkins. He describes how the Deacons worked with the Bogalusa Voters League to boycott the white owned businesses in the downtown area and to integrate the local schools, restaurants, parks, and paper mill. He also relates the story of Gary Duncan, a black man charged with battery for touching a white boy in Plaquemines Parish, the fiefdom of arch-segregationist Leander Perez. Honigsberg was part of the team that took the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and eventually established the constitutional right to a jury trial."
  2. "Honigsberg considers the impact of the change that occurred in the fall of 1967, when Martin Luther King's dream of blacks and whites working together in a cooperative partnership gave way to the new cry of "Black Power." His memoir provides a glimpse into the civil rights movement and those who were forever changed by its struggle for human dignity and vision of racial justice and equality."--Jacket.
Subject
  1. Honigsberg, Peter Jan
  2. Honigsberg, Peter Jan
  3. 1900-1999
  4. African Americans > Civil rights > History > Louisiana > 20th century
  5. African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History > Louisiana > 20th century
  6. African American civil rights workers > Louisiana > History > 20th century
  7. Civil rights workers > Louisiana > Biography
  8. Law students > Louisiana > Biography
  9. African American civil rights workers
  10. African Americans > Civil rights
  11. African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc
  12. Civil rights workers
  13. Law students
  14. Race relations
  15. Bürgerrechtsbewegung
  16. Legal status
  17. Militants politiques > États-Unis > Louisiane (États-Unis)
  18. Noirs américains > Droits > États-Unis
  19. Défenseurs des droits de l'homme > Etats-Unis > Louisiane (Etats-Unis) > Biographies
  20. Afro-Americans > Civil rights > History. > Louisiana
  21. African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History
  22. African American civil rights workers > History
  23. Civil rights workers > Biography
  24. Students > Louisiana > Biography
  25. Louisiana > Race relations
  26. Louisiana
  27. Louisiane (États-Unis) > Relations interethniques
Genre/Form
  1. Biography
  2. Biographies
  3. History
  4. Biographies.
Contents
  1. From the Subway to Mississippi -- Armed Escorts -- Klan Violence and the Deacons -- First Cousins -- Evenings at Cozy Corners -- Stepping off the Sidelines -- Welcome to New Orleans -- Litigating the End to Segregation -- Hiroshima Vigil -- Slave Quarters on Royal Street -- An Unwarranted Touching -- Louisiana Justice -- Jailhouse Fears -- Sobol v Perez -- "Throw Me Something, Mister" -- Unsettling Experiences -- "We'll Bring Your Freedom Back to You" -- Moving On.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-170) and index.