Forest Issac Jones

Good Trouble (eBook, ePUB)

The Selma, Alabama and Derry, Northern Ireland Connection 1963-1972

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Produktbeschreibung

Good Trouble will show the strong connection between the Black Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the Catholic Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland - specifically the influence of the Montgomery to Selma march on the 1969 Belfast to Derry march through oral history, based on numerous interviews of events leading up to both marches and afterwards. This is close to the author's heart as both of his parents marched to integrate lunch counters and movie theatres in Salisbury, North Carolina, in 1963 as college students. His mother was at the 1963 March to Washington where Martin Luther King gave his 'I Have a Dream' speech.
Award winning author Julieann Campbell (On Bloody Sunday) wrote the introduction for Good Trouble, looking back at her times growing up in Derry, in the heart of the Catholic Civil Rights Movement. Jones travelled to Dublin, Belfast and Derry to conduct interviews for the book. In all, he did fifteen interviews with people who were involved in the movement in Northern Ireland (including Billy McVeigh - featured in the BAFTA winning documentary, Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland) and in the United States (including Richard Smiley and Dr. Sheyann Webb-Christburg - both were at Bloody Sunday in Alabama and on the Selma to Montgomery march among others). Jones was also able to talk with Eamonn McCann (he took part in the Belfast to Derry march in 1969; he was the John Lewis of Northern Ireland).
Unlike most books on Northern Ireland, this goes into detail about the connection and the influence between the two movements. Also, most focus on Bloody Sunday and not the pivotal incidents at Burntollet Bridge and the Battle of the Bogside. Building off of unprecedented access and interviews with participants in both movements, Jones crafts a gripping and moving account of these pivotal years for both countries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839994630
• Artikelnr.: 73471888

Autorenporträt

Forest Issac Jones is an author of nonfiction, history and essays. He specialises in the study of Irish History, the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and Northern Ireland. He resides in Virginia, USA, and is an adjunct professor at Hollins University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue
1 Coming to Derry, Summer 2022
2 The Roots of the Conflict: Michael Collins and Easter Rising
3 The Rise of the IRA
4 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
5 1963 March on Washington
6 The Courageous Eight
7 Selma to Montgomery March
8 The People's Democracy in Northern Ireland
9 John Lewis
10 Bernadette Devlin
11 John Hume
12 Eamonn McCann
13 Selma to Montgomery March-Bloody Sunday
14 Bloody Sunday-the Impact
15 The Aftermath-The Selma to Montgomery March
16 The Beginning of the Catholic Civil Rights Movement
17 Belfast to Derry March-the Beginning
18 Day one-January 1, 1969, Belfast to Derry Long March
19 Day Two: Belfast to Derry-Toome
20 Day Three of the Belfast to Derry March
21 Last Day of the Belfast to Derry March
22 Battle of the Bogside
23 Conflict with the Police, Paramilitaries, and the Marchers
24 Conclusion
Brexit, Irish Unity, and the Troubles in Northern Ireland Today
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index