Wade Hall 
The Rest of the Dream [EPUB ebook] 
The Black Odyssey of Lyman Johnson

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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 citizenship became a guiding principle in Johnson’s life. Johnson was almost forty-three when he won admission to graduate study at the University of Kentucky in 1949. Crosses were burned on campus. Because of his family commitments, he returned to his teaching position in Louisville and never completed his doctorate. Thirty years later the university that fought to keep him out awarded him an honorary doctor of letters degree. Johnson earned his doctorate the hard way—by saying no to the crow’s nest and other marks of inequality. Johnson’s graphic recall of people and incidents and his storyteller’s talent for narrative make this record of a unique American life filled with suspense, humor, tragedy, and triumph.

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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.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 256 ● ISBN 9780813189420 ● File size 3.3 MB ● Publisher The University Press of Kentucky ● City Lexington ● Country US ● Published 2021 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7910675 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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