In Peace and Freedom: My Journey in Selma

by Bernard LaFayette Jr. and Kathryn Lee Johnson

Book Overview

Bernard LaFayette Jr. (b. 1940) was a cofounder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a leader in the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins, a Freedom Rider, an associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the national coordinator of the Poor People's Campaign. At the young age of twenty-two, he assumed the directorship of the Alabama Voter Registration Project in Selma-a city that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813143861
• ISBN13: 9780813143866
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up