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''My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered'' is a book of oral history regarding the American Civil Rights Movement by journalist Howell Raines. It is based on interviews with people involved in — for and against — the struggle to end racial segregation in the American South from the time of the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott to the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. ==Author's notes== Raines began his research for this book while the political editor for the ''Atlanta Constitution''. In February 1974, while looking at a statue of Georgian populist Thomas E. Watson from his office window, he pondered recent indications that Watson's dream of a Southern politics that did not pander to racial hatred might be at hand. He felt that the story of sacrifice and courage that had led to these changes needed to be more completely told by the people who lived it.〔Raines 1977. "Introduction", pp 17-24〕 As a journalist in Atlanta, Raines already had access to members of the movement who had since become prominent politicians in the South. As he conducted interviews he obtained from the interviewees names and contact information for others who should be included. His southern heritage also helped to obtain interviews with people who had fought racial desegregation.〔 All but two of the interviews included were expressly conducted for this book between October 1974 and April 1976. The interview with Autherine Lucy was conducted by Culpepper Clark, a historian at the University of Alabama. The material from Martin Luther King, Sr. was excerpted from in interview conducted by the author for a television program on PBS station KETV in Atlanta.〔 The book took nineteen months to complete. In the meantime Raines had left the ''Constitution'' to work on it.〔Cutler 1978, "'My Soul is Rested' Stirs Unrest In Marketing"〕 By the time it was published he had become the political editor at the ''St. Petersburg Times''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「My Soul Is Rested」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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