Memphis 68

Author: Stuart Cosgrove
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 085790938X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 373

Book Description
WINNER OF THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2018 In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launch pad of musical pioneers such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Al Green and Isaac Hayes, and by 1968 was a city synonymous with soul music. It was a deeply segregated city, ill at ease with the modern world and yet to adjust to the era of civil rights and racial integration. Stax Records offered an escape from the turmoil of the real world for many soul and blues musicians, with much of the music created there becoming the soundtrack to the civil rights movements. The book opens with the death of the city's most famous recording artist, Otis Redding, who died in a plane crash in the final days of 1967, and then follows the fortunes of Redding's label, Stax/Volt Records, as its fortunes fall and rise again. But, as the tense year unfolds, the city dominates world headlines for the worst of reasons: the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King.

Detroit 67

Author: Stuart Cosgrove
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 0857903349
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 462

Book Description
First in the award-winning soul music trilogy—featuring Motown artists Diana Ross & the Supremes, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and others. Detroit 67 is “a dramatic account of twelve remarkable months in the Motor City” during the year that changed everything (Sunday Mail). It takes you on a turbulent journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967 and tore it apart in personal, political, and interracial disputes. It is the story of Motown, the breakup of the Supremes, and the damaging clashes at the heart of the most successful African American music label ever. Set against a backdrop of urban riots, escalating war in Vietnam, and police corruption, the book weaves its way through a year when soul music came of age and the underground counterculture flourished. LSD arrived in the city with hallucinogenic power, and local guitar band MC5—self-styled holy barbarians of rock—went to war with mainstream America. A summer of street-level rebellion turned Detroit into one of the most notorious cities on earth, known for its unique creativity, its unpredictability, and self-lacerating crime rates. The year 1967 ended in social meltdown, rancor, and intense legal warfare as the complex threads that held Detroit together finally unraveled. “A whole-hearted evocation of people and places,” Detroit 67 is “a tale set at a fulcrum of American social and cultural history” (Independent).

It Came From Memphis

Author: Robert Gordon
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743410459
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
Gordon's critically acclaimed and richly entertaining exploration of the birthplace of rock and roll is peopled with Delta bluesmen, manic deejays, matinee cowboys and Elvis.

65 Dark Days In '68 (paperback)

Author: Hattie Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975506318
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Historical and unique perspective of the Memphis Sanitation Strike of 1968. (paperback version)

Summer of '68

Author: Tim Wendel
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 0306820188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
In a year shaped by national tragedy, baseball was shaped by amazing pitching--culminating in a victory by a Detroit Tigers team that faced off against Bob Gibson's St. Louis Cardinals, the 1967 World Series defending champions.

16n68

Author: Hester Johnson Moore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781892324559
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
NO THIS IS NOT WHAT DR. KING WANTED As a 16-year-old girl, Hester Johnson, found herself participating in Civil Rights marches in Memphis in support of the Sanitation workers that she knew personally. When Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support their efforts her life and the world changed forever. Afraid of what was to happen next. "God Help Me!" Glass breaking all around me. Screams and then sirens blaring...policemen swinging sticks. I heard a man yell..."RUN, RUN! GO BACK TO THE CHURCH!" I searched for the Pastor and saw him covering his nose and his mouth with a handkerchief, pointing in the direction of Clayborn Temple. "Oh God help me!" Fearing for our lives we gathered inside the walls of Clayborn Temple. Then the police blasted over a bullhorn..."YOU'VE GOT 15 MINUTES TO COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP!" We looked out the balcony window and saw hundreds of policemen lined up across the street. The minister pleaded with us "Do what the police say!"

Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign

Author: Michael K. Honey
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393078329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 665

Book Description
The definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.'s last crusade. Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation mentality" embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors, poor education, and low wages locked most black workers into poverty. Then two sanitation workers were chewed up like garbage in the back of a faulty truck, igniting a public employee strike that brought to a boil long-simmering issues of racial injustice. With novelistic drama and rich scholarly detail, Michael Honey brings to life the magnetic characters who clashed on the Memphis battlefield: stalwart black workers; fiery black ministers; volatile, young, black-power advocates; idealistic organizers and tough-talking unionists; the first black members of the Memphis city council; the white upper crust who sought to prevent change or conflagration; and, finally, the magisterial Martin Luther King Jr., undertaking a Poor People's Campaign at the crossroads of his life, vilified as a subversive, hounded by the FBI, and seeing in the working poor of Memphis his hopes for a better America.

65 Dark Days In '68 (hardback)

Author: Elie Publishing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975506301
Category : Civil rights movements
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
Historical and unique perspective of the Memphis Sanitation Strike of 1968.

Memphis and the Paradox of Place

Author: Wanda Rushing
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807832995
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B. B. King, Johnny Cash, and other musical legends got their starts. It is also a place of conflict and tragedy--the site of Martin Luther

Memphis 1968

Author: Woodrow Wallace
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 198452075X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 17

Book Description
The author, Woodrow Wallace, challenges one to answer the questions put forth in Memphis 1968: The Forgotten Lessons. The ability of the author to breathe life again into the existence of perhaps the most comprehensive visualization of racism ever witnessed in the twentieth century seemingly always to appear as unbelievable. The author has captured one of the most unique approaches to conveying a live experience of racism hurled at African Americans and caused the death of the Dreamer. This book will unveil a simple look at the constant mandate of those that will foster a devastating collapse of America due to self-serving tactics of racism. Notwithstanding other powder kegs in America today (2018), Memphis will always hold the death of a King! The author solicits an honest accounting of oneself as to what part of history you are helping to write for Americas future. Leave the future to the control of racists and hate becomes the norm (Woodrow Wallace, 2018).