In 'The Movement Made Us,' A Son Writes A Stirring Tribute To His Freedom Fighter Father
essence.comCivil Rights heroes are real people. We read about their brave acts, but they remain two-dimensional, stuck inside the pages of our history books.
But our heroes had families. They had sons and daughters who often witnessed the violence and trauma inflicted on their parents in the fight for freedom.One of those sons is David Dennis Jr., who recently wrote, The Movement Made Us: A Father, A Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride which chronicles his father’s involvement in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
David Dennis Sr. joined CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) in 1960 and went on to organize lunch sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and voter registration drives.
He was also beaten and jailed and witnessed the brutal deaths of some of his closest friends and fellow freedom fighters. In the moving memoir, Dennis Jr.
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