The New York Times
Book Review
Sunday, June 21, 1998
Page 25
Books in Brief
WEARY FEET, RESTED SOULS
A Guided History of
the Civil Rights Movement.
By Townsend Davis.
Norton, $27.50.In, "Weary Feet, Rested Souls," Townsend Davis, a New York lawyer, follows a geography of major events in the civil rights struggles in the South of the 1960's. The book is a mixture of history and travel reportage, with a preservationist's eye for the churches, courthouses, homes and public places of historical importance. Thanks in part to the book's superb graphic design it advances a visual approach to historical memory that succeeds well. News photographs of rallies and street marches are particularly powerful. Drawing on passages from speeches of movement leaders, descriptive accounts from reporters, letters and documents, Davis has written sidebars that fashion historical cameos through human voices. The book does not break new research ground, and has no chapter at all on Louisiana. Nevertheless, this survey of the civil rights movement should prove useful to students and entertaining to general readers.
JASON BERRY
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Originally Published: June 21, 1998
New York Times
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