TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Lyman T.
AU  - Hall,Wade
TI  - The rest of the dream: the Black odyssey of Lyman Johnson 
SN  - 9780813156989
AV  - E185 .R478 1988
PY  - 1988///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Johnson, Lyman T.,
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Kentucky
KW  - Biography
KW  - Civil rights workers
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 2340 Muhammad Ali Boulevard; Dark Days in Columbia; On the Road to Higher Education; Way Up North in Louisville; An Iconoclast in the Classroom; Black and White Niggers; Lifting Bales and Other Vocations; Jim Crow Days; Lunch Counters and Flaming Crosses; Black Heroes; Blacks at the Ballot Box; Uncle Tom and George Wallace; The Battle's Not Over; All Colors Are Beautiful; Musings of a Militant Pacifist; The Religion of a Doubting Thomas; The Rest of the Dream; Index; 2; b
N2  - 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 admis
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