The Rest of the Dream: The Black Odyssey of Lyman Johnson

" In The Rest of the Dream, Lyman Johnson, grassroots civil rights leader, tells his own story. All four of Johnson's grandparents were slaves in Tennessee. Yet his father was a college graduate, principal of a black school, and the inspiration for his son's love of justice. Lyman Johnson was born in 1906 during the darkest days of segregation. He learned from his father not to sit in the "crow's nest" reserved for blacks in his hometown movie theater. This refusal to accept second-class citizen

ISBN-13: 9780813116747

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Publication Date: 11-17-1988

Pages: 256

Product Dimensions: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Wade Hall is professor of English at Bellarmine College. He is the editor of the Kentucky Poetry Review and has written extensively on southern literature and history.