Beaches, Blood, and Ballots: A Black Doctor's Civil Rights Struggle (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (826 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1934110280 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1928, Mason earned an M.D. His persistence and growing political skills brought improvements in education, employment, and social life in his own state and beyond its boundaries. While in college, he had worked in Chicago for four summers and learned what non-Jim Crow life was like. William BeattyCopyright © American Library Association. From Booklist Mason's autobiography is derived from oral history tapes. That experience and his broad view of the medic
A physician of all seasons Andrew H Rogness Dr. Gilbert Mason has written a book which not only stands as an important literary stone in the foundation of the civil rights movement, but also as a window into the humanity and "higher calling" of being a physician. As a white physician in Mississipppi, I was riveted when I read this book. The hardship which was endured by African Americans during this era is unimaginable, and it was only a generation ago. With eloquence and thouroughness Dr. Mason leads us through the origins of the civil rights m. Forsaken Son said Must read Civil Rights history. This was an excellent read for an in-depth look into the civil rights struggle in the south. From a black doctor's perspective, the book gives the reader a different look at many events in Mississipi that led to integration and equality, and what was sacrificed to attain what we have today.The book also gives the reader an intimate look into Dr. Mason's life from childhood to the civil rights era, but not beyond. This book would have been better if more information on Dr. Mason had been included. Hopef. "MS Gulf Coast Primer" according to Susan Stevens. If you live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and are interested in the Civil Rights movement, this is a must read.
Following graduation from Tennessee State and Howard University Medical College, he set up his practice in the black section of Biloxi in 1955 and experienced the restrictions that even a black physician suffered in the segregated South. A year later more wade-ins on beaches reserved for whites set off the bloodiest race riot in the state's history and led the U.S. He joined his friends and allies Aaron Henry and the martyred Medgar Evers to combat injustices in one of the nation's most notorious bastions of segregation. Born in 1928 in the slums of Jackson, Mason acknowledges the impact of his strong extended family and of the supportive system of institutions in the black neighborhood. This book, the first to focus on the integration of the Gulf Coast, is Dr. Justice Department to initiate the first-ever federal court challenge of Mississippi's segregationist laws and practices. As the coordinator of the strategy, he faced threats to his life. Mason's eyewitness account of harrowing episodes that occurred there during the civil rights movement. Mason's memoir gives readers a documented journey through the daily humiliations that segregation and