Michael Honey’s “The Power of Remembering” offers a glimpse into the personal struggles of ordinary African American Men and women from the 1930’s to the present. Honey asserts that in order for one to understand the civil rights movement of the 1950-60’s special attention must focus on the years that preceded it. Honey believes the focus should be on the “connections between community, civil rights, and labor struggles, toward the perspective and influence of women, and towards the role of ordinary people in creating the basis for change. ” Honey offers the stories of African Americans from the Memphis Tennessee, which he noted had been “at the heart of slavery and the cotton trade… and was the place of …the most ruthless political machine
