Delta epiphany : Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi / Ellen B. Meacham
- Author:
- Meacham, Ellen B.
- Published:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2018]
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 299 pages ; 24 cm
- Contents:
- Now this problem has to be faced -- We were to try harder than anyone else -- It's to hell with Bobby K -- They are starving -- Wherever one looks in this land, whatever one sees that is the work of man -- I just couldn't make a living -- A terrible reflection on our society -- We need to make an effort together -- You don't know what i saw! -- I'd feel better if I were doing what I think ought to be done -- Bring the poor people to Washington -- It let us know that there was somebody who cared -- We don't speak of statistics, numbers, we speak of human beings.
- Summary:
- "In April 1967, Robert F. Kennedy knelt in a crumbling shack in Mississippi trying to coax a response from a listless child. The toddler sat picking at dried rice and beans spilled over the dirt floor as Kennedy touched the boy's distended stomach and stroked his face. After several minutes with little response, the senator walked out the back door, wiping away tears. In Delta Epiphany, Ellen B. Meacham tells the story of Kennedy's visit, while also examining the forces of history, economics, and politics that shaped the lives of the children he met in Mississippi in 1967 and the decades that followed"--
- Subject(s):
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968—Travel—Mississippi
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
- 1900-1999
- Poverty—Mississippi—History—20th century
- African Americans—Mississippi—Economic conditions—20th century
- African Americans—Economic conditions
- Politics and government
- Poverty
- Travel
- United States—Politics and government—1963-1969
- Mississippi
- United States
- Genre(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781496817457 hardcover ; alkaline paper
1496817451 hardcover ; alkaline paper - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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