Weary Feet

Weary Feet

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Weary Feet Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement
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Townsend Davis

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: December 1997

The first comprehensive guidebook to the battlegrounds and back roads of the civil rights movement in the deep South, "Weary Feet, Rested Souls" extensively chronicles the churches, jails, courthouses, homes, barber shops, soda fountains, and even a bowling alley where the formative events of this inspiring movement took place. 113 photos. 22 original maps. Media publicity. Print ads. Web site feature. 12,500 print.

A Guided History Through the Civil Rights Movement

The first comprehensive guidebook to the battlegrounds and back roads of the civil rights movement in the deep South.

Thirty years after the civil rights movement transformed America, Weary Feet, Rested Souls brings the landscape of this compelling period of history back to life. Author Townsend Davis chronicles the churches, jails, courthouses, homes, barber shops, soda fountains, and even a bowling alley where the formative events of this inspiring movement took place.

Both an armchair history of the civil rights struggle and an indispensable companion for those traveling to the deep South, this guide takes readers to Marrtin Luther King, Jr.'s childhood neighborhood, along the path of the Freedom Riders to Philadelphia, Mississippi, where three civil rights workers were murdered, to the route of the triumphant march from Selma to Montgomery, and to hundreds of other sites, many well off the beaten track.

Accounts of these historic places also include the words of many who lived through those times and contains a completely up-to-date description of new monuments and museums commemorating the movement and its heroes.

Townsend Davis is a writer and lawyer living in New York City. His articles has appeared in the New Republic, the Los Angeles Times, and the Charlotte Observer.