| Description |
x, 835 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Oriki : ancestors and roots -- The house at the forty-two steps -- A tale of two cities -- "A better neighborhood" -- Bronx science : young manhood -- Howard University : everything and its opposite -- NAG and the birth of SNCC -- Nonviolence : apprenticeship in struggle -- The great leap forward : the freedom rides -- Nashville : a new direction -- To school or not to school -- The hearts and minds of the student body -- Mississippi (1961-65) : going home -- A band of brothers, a circle of trust -- Of marches, coalitions, dreams, and ambulance chasing -- Summer '64 : ten dollars a day and all the sex you can handle -- They still didn't get it -- The unforeseen pitfalls of "success" American style -- Selma : crisis, chaos, opportunity -- Lowndes county : the roar of the panther -- "Magnified, scrutinized, criticized ..." -- "We gotta make this our Mississippi" -- Black power and its consequences -- Around the world in eighty days -- Mother Africa and her suffering children -- In that Ol' Brier patch -- Conakry, 1968 : home to Africa -- Cancer brings out the best in people -- A struggle on two fronts. |
| Subject |
Carmichael, Stokely, 1941-1998.
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African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
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Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
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Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Thelwell, Michael.
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| ISBN |
0684850036 |
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