A North Carolina Town's Struggle for Civil Rights, 1957-1970
by
Amanda Hilliard Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
During the summer of 1963 civil rights movements were taking place all over the South. In northeastern North Carolina the struggle for freedom focused on the small town of Williamston, where a legacy of voting rights advocacy and a history of violence caught the attention of Martin Luther King, Jr.,...