The Moment

Changemakers on Why and How They Joined the Fight for Social Justice
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-58838-475-1
Verlag: University of Georgia Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

They are as diverse as America. Young and old. Of color and white. Urban and rural. Immigrants and native born. They are students and teachers. Athletes and artists. Lawyers, doctors, politicians, farmers, architects, novelists, and more. Names familiar and unfamiliar. Superheroes, figuratively.and in one case real! They have founded major corporations and grassroots organizations or struck out on their own. They are institutionalizes and agitators. And in some cases both!

But as diverse a lot as they may be, the people who tell their stories on these pages share one thing in common. Each is committed to fighting inequality and injustice. Each, too, can pinpoint a moment when they were moved to action, when it became impossible to sit on the sidelines and just watch: when the teacher uttered racial slurs, when no one in the college club looked like they did, when the city was on the brink of disaster, when the authorities came for their undocumented mother, when they discovered their ancestors had owned slaves, when the cop stopped them in their own driveway, when there was no fresh food in their community, when their right to vote was threatened.

In The Moment, New York Times bestselling author Steve Fiffer presents an oral history from today's social justice activists—many of them still under 30—that is pitch perfect for these dissonant times. First person accounts that will inspire us to act, offer a blueprint for making change, and perhaps, most importantly, give us hope for the future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fiffer, Steve

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Steve Fiffer is an author and community activist whose distinguished career includes collaborations with the likes of Dr. Quentin Young, personal doctor to Martin Luther King Jr.; Robert Jordan, former ambassador to Saudi Arabia; and James A. Baker, former U.S. secretary of state. He is the co-author of Jimmie Lee and James: Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement that Changed America, a Harlem Book Fair nonfiction finalist. He is also the cowriter of Southern Poverty Law Center cofounder Morris Dees’s two award-winning memoirs A Season for Justice and Hate on Trial. Fiffer lives in Evanston, Illinois, with his wife Sharon, a novelist. He currently serves on the advisory board of the Civic Leadership Foundation in Chicago, a nonprofit that serves underprivileged youth.

Ashley M. Jones is Poet Laureate of the state of Alabama (2022-2026). She received an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University. She currently lives in Birmingham, AL, where she is founding director of the Magic City Poetry Festival and a faculty member in the Creative Writing Department of the Alabama School of Fine Arts.

Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Stevenson also led the creation of two highly acclaimed cultural sites which opened in Montgomery in 2018: the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. He has been named a MacArthur Fellow and recognized by Time magazine as one of "The 100 Most Influential People." The legal drama Just Mercy was based on his memoir by that name.