With Music and Justice for All

Some Southerners and Their Passions

Frye Gaillard author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Vanderbilt University Press

Published:30th Mar '08

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With Music and Justice for All is a collection of Frye Gaillard's most compelling work, one writer's odyssey though a time and place. There are stories here of the civil rights movement, a moral, social and political upheaval that changed the South in so many ways. Gaillard has captured the essence of that drama by giving it a face - telling the stories of the ordinary people, as well as the icons. In the course of these pages, the reader not only meets Dr. Martin Luther King, but also the lesser known heroes such Perry Wallace - the first African American basketball player in the Southeastern Conference and Thomas Gilmore, the first black sheriff in one of the toughest counties in the Alabama Black Belt, a man of non-violence, who refused, in deference to the fallen Dr. King, to carry a gun during the thirteen years he served as sheriff.

Indelible and often surprising portraits of everybody from Marshall Chapman to Billy Graham, Tipper Gore to Johnny Cash. --Less Smith A fresh, non-standard survey of Southern culture over the last 40 years: significant figures who are not well known and new lights on ones who are. It will buck you up, I believe, if you have strong feelings about the South. --Roy Blount Jr. ""Frye Gaillard tells the truth at all costs, confronting racism head-on, explicating Southern music better than anybody else in the world, presenting indelible and often surprising) portraits of everybody from Marshall Chapman to Billy Graham, Tipper Gore to Johnny Cash. Rigorous integrity and generous, graceful writing characterize this fine book."" --Lee Smith

ISBN: 9780826515889

Dimensions: 232mm x 159mm x 21mm

Weight: 454g

240 pages