{"product_id":"outside-agitator-charles-eagles-9780817310691","title":"Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutside Agitator\u003c\/i\u003e tells the dramatic, largely forgotten storybehind the 1965 killing of civil rights worker Jonathan Myrick \"Jon\" Daniels in Lowndes County, Alabama, detailing the lives of the killer and the victim. A white Episcopal seminary student from New Hampshire, Jon Daniels helped organize blacks in Selma during the events that led to the Selma-to-Montgomery march. In August 1965 he was fatally shot in neighboring Lowndes County by Tom Coleman, a highway department engineer and steadfast segregationist, who was later acquitted by an all-white jury.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLowndes County was a bastion of white minority dominance. For half a century, no black had voted or served on a jury there. Known for the violence used by whites to maintain their control, \"bloody\" Lowndes presented Daniels and other civil rights workers with almost insurmountable obstacles. Tom Coleman, a Lowndes County native, represented the consensus among local whites that violent resistance to racial change was justified. To defend his community and to prevent change, he resorted to violence against \"outside agitators.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing the deaths of a score of other civil rights workers, the killing of Jon Daniels was in many ways the last atrocity of the first, southern, nonviolent phase of the Civil Rights movement. This exploration of how Daniels and Coleman came to be at opposite ends of a shotgun outside a county store captures the mechanics and emotions of forces promoting and resisting change in southern race relations. Charles Eagles reminds us that however representative Daniels and Coleman may have been of larger forces, they were nevertheless real individuals with distinctive personalities caught up in specific circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Eagles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081731069X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817310691\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/23\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.32w x 0.77d","brand":"Charles Eagles","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990400631039,"sku":"9780817310691","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e78dfb42-6e5d-466d-9dc8-e971fa11f3b3.jpg?v=1683304461","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/outside-agitator-charles-eagles-9780817310691","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}