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Paul Spike grew up during the violent conflicts of the American sixties. In this book, he tries to come to terms with his own history and with the life and death of his remarkable father--the Reverend Robert W. Spike. This is the story of two men--one growing up, one murdered--and the bond of love and trust between them. Reverend Spike was a man of character and courage, a prophetic young minister who preached the social gospel. Perhaps the most important white man among the leadership of the black civil rights movement during the early sixties, he played a prominent role in the March on Washington and in the passage of the Civil Rights Bill of 1964. He organized hundreds of ministers for the Selma demonstrations, helped write President Johnson's voting rights speech, and fought to save the Child Development Group of Mississippi in 1966. In the midst of this last struggle he was found bludgeoned to death in Columbus, Ohio. A murder that remains unsolved today. In this honest and searching book, a son tries to understand his father's murder as part of the American chaos, and most deeply as it affected him and his family. The relationship between Paul Spike and his father was intrica

Author

Spike, Paul, 1947-

Publisher

New York, Knopf; [distributed by Random House]

Published

1973

Language

EN

ISBN

9780394473345

Subjects

Political Science, Philosophy, Memoir