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  • Delta Epiphany

  • Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi
  • De: Ellen B. Meacham
  • Narrado por: Rosemary Benson
  • Duración: 11 h y 8 m
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (7 calificaciones)

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De: Ellen B. Meacham
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In April 1967, a year before his run for president, Senator Robert F. Kennedy knelt in a crumbling shack in Mississippi trying to coax a response from a listless child. The toddler sat picking at dried rice and beans spilled over the dirt floor as Kennedy, former US attorney general and brother to a president, touched the boy's distended stomach and stroked his face and hair. After several minutes with little response, the senator walked out the back door, wiping away tears.

In Delta Epiphany: Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi, Ellen B. Meacham tells the story of Kennedy's visit to the Delta, while also examining the forces of history, economics, and politics that shaped the lives of the children he met in Mississippi in 1967 and the decades that followed.

Kennedy's visit to the Mississippi Delta as part of a Senate subcommittee investigation of poverty programs lasted only a few hours, but Kennedy, the people he encountered, Mississippi, and the nation felt the impact of that journey for much longer. His visit and its aftermath crystallized many of the domestic issues that later moved Kennedy toward his candidacy for the presidency. Upon his return to Washington, Kennedy immediately began seeking ways to help the children he met on his visit; however, his efforts were frustrated by institutional obstacles and blocked by powerful men who were indifferent and at times hostile to the plight of poor Black children.

Sadly, we know what happened to Kennedy, but this audiobook also introduces us to three of the children he met on his visit, including the baby on the floor, and finishes their stories.

Kennedy talked about what he had seen in Mississippi for the remaining 14 months of his life. His vision for America was shaped by the plight of the hungry children he encountered there.

©2018 University Press of Mississippi (P)2018 Redwood Audiobooks

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Overall very good but leaves you with one very wrong impression

I love reading in detail about RFK and his impact on society; he was one of our best and we are worse off for his death. This book is an excellent picture of a trip that changed both his life and American history. However, there's one issue. Despite all the commentary by Mississippians in this book, he was not killed for his work on reliving poverty. He was killed because Sirhan Sirhan was an..um.... very dedicated... Palestinian incensed at RFKs support for Israel. This should be stated a little more strongly in the book to counter all the commentary at the end.

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