Hope and History is an eloquent, informed, and impassioned call to remember and to share the story of "the civil rights movements." Drawing on his extensive experience as a participant-historian in the movement, Harding focuses on the profound significance of the freedom struggle for our lives as citizens today. In this new edition, Harding includes a "Letter to my Brother, My Son, the President," reflecting on the election of President Barack Obama and drawing connections between his accomplishment and the broad history that lay behind it. That great struggle for freedom and transformation emerges as a continuing human classic whose liberating lessons are available to all. Book jacket.