When a young black soldier at home on leave was found hanged in a Cairo, Illinois, police station in 1967, the black and white populations of this southern Illinois river city clashed violently, and the fury, once ignited, raged on for seven years. Jan Peterson Roddy has brought together the photographs of Preston Ewing Jr. with a wealth of collateral materials to document these turbulent years of racial strife. At the core of this book and providing its essential vitality are 110 black-and-white photographs by Ewing, who ...
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When a young black soldier at home on leave was found hanged in a Cairo, Illinois, police station in 1967, the black and white populations of this southern Illinois river city clashed violently, and the fury, once ignited, raged on for seven years. Jan Peterson Roddy has brought together the photographs of Preston Ewing Jr. with a wealth of collateral materials to document these turbulent years of racial strife. At the core of this book and providing its essential vitality are 110 black-and-white photographs by Ewing, who at the time this struggle began was the local NAACP president in Cairo. Excerpts from oral histories place Ewing's images in context and fill in the details of the story. Interspersed news clippings, newspaper headlines, and public announcements and documents help re-create a sense of what it was like to live in Cairo at the time. Essays by Marva Nelson and Cherise Smith put the attitudes, events, and images of Cairo in a national context and examine photography's privileged position in presenting and preserving history. The clash in Cairo serves as a microcosm of the national civil rights struggle in the late 1960s. Let My People Go provides the faces and voices of the movement. Sensational photographs of furious confrontation highlight some of these pages, but this pictorial and narrative account of Cairo's story also shows that this was a multifaceted struggle involving, among other things, great persistence. The story of Cairo is compelling. It is unique even as it illustrates the common American theme of ordinary people grappling for justice. The perspective is that of a black community that lived through this struggle and wants its story told. It is a story told through an uncommon blend of documentation, human recollection, and analysis.
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Add this copy of Let My People Go: Cairo, Illinois 1967-1973 to cart. $119.36, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Southern Illinois University P.
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Good; Hardcover; Withdrawn library copy with the standard library markings; Light overall wear to the covers with moderate sun-fading to the upper edges of the covers; Library stamps to the endpapers; Text pages are clean & unmarked; Good binding with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5"-9.75" tall); 1.8 lbs; Gray and black paper-covered boards with title in silver lettering along the spine; 1996, Southern Illinois University Press; 128 pages; "Let My People Go: Cairo, Illinois, 1967-1973, " by Jan Peterson Roddy & Preston Ewing.
Add this copy of Let My People Go: Cairo, Illinois, 1967-1973 to cart. $204.50, very good condition, Sold by Salish Sea Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bellingham, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Southern Illinois University Press.
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Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and glossy with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; The textblock edges are unblemished; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75"-11.75" tall); 1.8 lbs; Gray dust jacket with black and white photo, and title in red lettering; 1996, Southern Illinois University Press; 128 pages; "Let My People Go: Cairo, Illinois, 1967-1973, " by Jan Peterson Roddy & Preston Ewing.
Add this copy of Let My People Go: Cairo, Illinois 1967-1973 to cart. $92.58, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Southern Illinois University P.
