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Historical February 1990 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
St. Louis was an exciting place in 1963. Gaslight Square was in full swing and the Arch was being constructed but discrimination in jobs and housing were major problems for black St. Louisans.
On August 31, more than 150 demonstrators, sponsored by the Congress on Racial Equality, gathered in front of the Jefferson Bank to protest against discrimination in hiring.
Although most of the bank’s depositors were black, there were no white collar jobs for them.
The Kiosk has several books that tell of civil rights struggles both in St. Louis and in the rest of the country.
A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of the Opposition is by George Lipsitz. Perry grew up in Arkansas in a sharecropper family, and served in the Korean War before settling in St. Louis.
The racism that he encountered all through his life prepared him to actively participate in the civil rights struggle of the sixties.
In St. Louis he met Bob Curtis, a dedicated young lawyer who served as the leader of CORE, Percy Green, another strong personality in the civil rights leadership, and white members of the Catholic Worker organization. Lipsitz describes the nonviolent demonstrations held at Jefferson Bank and a Christmas boycott of Famous Barr.
He tells how Perry brought a very young Jesse Jackson to St. Louis in an effort to fight against discrimination in public housing. Perry, without a high school education or many social advantages, helped a community mobilize to act in social protest against racial injustice.
Another book about a St. Louis activist is Dick Gregory’s autobiography Nigger, which was published in 1964. Born in poverty like Ivory Perry, he finished his education at the University of Illinois at Carbondale, after distinguishing himself in high school as president of his class and athlete of the year.
At Carbondale he was a track star before going on to become one of America’s premier comedians.
He has worn many hats during his life, including civil rights activist.
He led protest marchers in Birmingham, Alabama where he was jailed, spoke to a voter registration rally in Greenwood, Mississippi and was also jailed in Chicago for demonstrating.
He has written several other books including his most recent on nutrition. Mississippi Burning by Joel Norst is based on the screenplay by Chris Gerolmo and tells of three civil rights workers who were murdered by whites in Mississippi.
In the story two FBI agents investigate the crime.
Another book on the same subject is We Are Not Afraid: The story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi by Seth Cagin.
In 1960, John Howard Griffin wrote his book Black Like Me.
A white man who specialized in race issues, he admitted to himself that he really knew nothing of black problems.
So he went through med. ical treatments to change his skin color and shaved off his hair in order to journey through the deep south in an attempt to experience the life of blacks who lived there.
His story makes troubling but important reading.
These books and others are available at the St. Louis Public Library Kiosk.
The Kiosk now has a new copy machine.
Copies can be made for 10 cents apiece.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, February 1990.
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Archival transcription note: Biographical and chronological claims about reviewed authors are the original1990review, not newly verified findings. Original Dick Gregory autobiography title retained as bibliographic historical text.
Original source: SD_Times1990_02.pdf, printed page(s) 4; PDF page(s) 4.
