Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-297) and index.
Summary
Now updated to include the final chapter of Ivory Perry's life, this new edition completes the life story of the grass-roots activist whose flamboyant direct action protests and patient behind the scenes organizing helped educate and agitate his community in the struggle for civil rights and economic opportunity.
Contents
Pine Bluff : the moral resources of a southern black community -- Korea : the lessons of war -- St. Louis : civil rights and the industrial city -- Bogalusa : civil rights in a southern city -- The war on poverty : the emergence of an organic intellectual -- The rent strike : housing issues and social protest -- Lead poisoning : peace and pain in the struggle -- Politics in the postindustrial city -- Collective memory and social learning : deep like the rivers -- A drum major for justice.
