| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxiii, 711 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 683-687) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. A way of life -- The cost of oppression -- Race, creed, color, or national origin -- The South's unique liability -- pt. 2. A movement is born -- The revolution got out of hand -- Old Black women walking in the sun -- Pilgrims -- pt. 3. Resistance: the separate but not equal -- Th power of the ballot box -- The desire to survive politically -- Faith is not enough -- Nothing personal, you understand -- A subtle, gradual tightening down -- pt. 4. Soul force -- Hate and history coming together -- This was our time -- A glorious opportunity -- A handle that we could use -- pt. 5. Confrontation -- An absolutely awful day in Alabama -- A limit to liberalism -- Where's your body? -- In the bowels of the beast -- pt. 6. Albany, Oxford, and Birmingham -- A willingness to suffer -- The land of never -- You relied on local help -- A failed success -- A mission and a nervous stomach -- Not another Oxford -- Mississippi : caught up in the tradition -- Peace in the valley -- So nice to have you in Birmingham -- pt. 7. Other frontiers -- The march -- You always have to worry -- The education of Sharon Burger -- No plan, no program -- pt. 8. Victory -- Segregation is broken -- The end of the terror -- A chronology of significant movement events. |
| Summary |
Describes the struggle of the men and women, black and white, who dedicated themselves to breaking segregation in America. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Civil rights.
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Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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United States -- Race relations.
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African Americans -- Civil rights.
(OCoLC)fst00799575
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Civil rights movements. (OCoLC)fst00862708
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Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
0316716324 |
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9780316716321 |
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