Showing results for "activism" in Memoirs, Diaries & Correspondence

Dronning Ingrid er Annelise Bistrups indsigtsfulde værk om prinsesse Ingrids opvækst ved det svenske hof. Vi får et detaljeret indblik i den svenske prinsesses liv sammen med Kong Frederik IX og tiden efter hans død, hvor hun fortsætter sit officielle liv som dronning.

A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. He brought Gandhi's protest techniques to the American civil rights movement and played a deeply influential role in the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., helping to mold him into an international symbol of nonviolence.

Though Moynihan never wrote an autobiography, he was a gifted author and voluminous correspondent, and in this selection from his letters Steven Weisman has compiled a vivid portrait of Moynihan’s life, in the senator’s own words. Before his four terms as Senator from New York, Moynihan served in key positions under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. His letters offer an extraordinary window into particular moments in history.

A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life. Jackson's letters make palpable the intense feelings of anger and rebellion that filled Black men in America's prisons in the 1960s. But even removed from the social and political firestorms of the 1960s, Jackson's story still resonates for its portrait of a man taking a stand even while locked down.

Ein Glücksfall für die Historiker: Harry Graf Kessler (1868-1937) beschreibt das Zeitgeschehen im Jahr 1927. Zwei Freunde sterben: Isadora Duncan und Maximilian Harden. Der Schwerpunkt in diesem Jahr ist die Zusammenarbeit mit den Künstlern. Arbeit als Mäzen und für seine Projekte. Mit Kurt Weill, Gerhart Hauptmann, Paul Valery, George Grosz, Aristide Mailoll, Markus Behmer, Gordon Craig. Mit dem deutschen Botschafter in Rom tauscht er sich über den Faschismus aus und kommentiert die Hinrichtung Sacco und Vanzettis.