Ebook {Epub PDF} Witness to the Truth: My Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana by John H. Scott

 · Born in in a small, almost all-black parish, John H. Scott grew up in a community where black businesses, schools, and neighborhoods thrived in isolation from the white. Witness to the Truth tells the extraordinary life story of a grassroots human rights leader and his courageous campaign to win the right to vote for the African Americans of Lake Providence, Louisiana/5. Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. Witness to the truth: my struggle for human rights in Louisiana / John H. Scott with Cleo Scott Brown. Author: Scott, John Henry, Scott, John Henry, ; African American civil rights workers.

John H. Scott with Cleo Scott Brown. Witness to the Truth: My Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, xix + pp. $ (cloth), ISBN Reviewed by Justin Nystrom (Department of History, Georgia Southern University) Published on H-South (May, ). Cleo Scott Brown worked for six years to gather and present the story told in Witness to the Truth. A graduate of Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana, she also attended Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, Brown is employed as a risk manager for a public utility company and serves on the board of the J. H. Scott Memorial Fund, which provides scholarships to students who. He was assisted in some areas by the NAACP Legal Counsel, and during the '60's by the US Justice Department. He gave testimony before the US Civil Rights Commission in This story is now recorded in the book, Witness To the Truth--My Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana by John H. Scott with Cleo Scott Brown. For more information go to.

Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. Witness to the Truth: John H. Scott's Struggle for Human Rights in Louisiana by John Henry Scott with Cleo Scott Brown. Columbia: University South Carolina Press, pp. Witness to the Truth documents the remarkable daily courage that was the true engine for the Civil Rights movement in the US. Witness to the Truth book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Witness to the Truth tells the extraordinary life story of a grassroo.