WITHERS, E: REVOLUTION IN BLACK & WHITE: Photographs of the Civil Rights Era by Ernest Withers Gebundene Ausgabe – Illustriert
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von  Richard Cahan  (Autor), Michael Williams  (Autor), Andrew Young  (Vorwort), Ernest C. Withers  (Fotograf)

Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers of the civil rights era. During the course of his work, he took thousands photographs that document the civil rights movement—from the Emmett Till trial in 1955 to the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. 

What set his work apart was that he goes beyond the political struggles to explain the civil rights movement that changed the country. Withers was primarily a local photographer, working as a freelancer for the Memphis World and Tri-State Defender starting in 1948. His photographs of the everyday world—bridge clubs, funerals, people at work and play, and street life—create a stunning record of what it was like to live in Memphis and the Mid-South. He was also a noted baseball photographer, documenting Negro League baseball in Memphis, and a noted music photographer, taking thousands of photographs of jazz, blues, rock ’n’ roll and R&B performers. ...

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Cosgrove, S: Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul
(Soul Trilogy, Band 2) Taschenbuch

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Vor allem ein Buch für Musikliebhaber (Südstaaten-Soul), es geht z.B. um das Label STAX, vor allem aber eine eingehende Beschreibung der Bürgerrechtsbewegung, der sozialen Situation in Memphis - den Umständen des Todes von MLK und dem Tathergang sind viele Seiten gewidmet, lesenswert !!!

... 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.

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Cosgrove, S: Detroit 67: The Year that changed Soul
(Soul Trilogy, Band 1) Taschenbuch

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Der erste lesenswerte Band der Soul-Trilogie von Stuart Cosgrove. Toll recherchiert, man staunt, welche Details er ausgräbt. Flüssig zu lesen wie ein Roman wird die Situationdes Civil Rights-Movements beschrieben. Entstehung und Konflikte innerhalb des legendären Soul-Labels Motown.

Detroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed everything. Twelve chapters take you on a turbulent year-long 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 break-up of The Supremes and the damaging disputes 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 &; ...

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Cosgrove, S: Harlem 69: The Future of Soul
(Soul Trilogy, Band 3) Taschenbuch

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Die Situation der schwarzen Community ein Jahr nach MLKs Tod. Harlem als Zentrum kultureller Impulse, die Black Panther-Bewegung, etc ...

In 1969, among Harlem’s Rabelaisian cast of characters are bandleader King Curtis, soul singers Aretha Franklin and Donny Hathaway, and drug peddler Jimmy ‘Goldfinger’ Terrell. In February a raid on tenements across New York leads to the arrest of 21 Black Panther party members and one of the most controversial trials of the era. In the summer Harlem plays host to Black Woodstock and concerts starring Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder and Nina Simone. The world’s most famous guitarist, Jimi Hendrix, a major supporter of the Black Panthers, returns to Harlem in support of their cause...

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