Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 - Rilegato

Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth

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ISBN 10: 0393062449 ISBN 13: 9780393062441

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2008

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A history of the effort to promote social justice throughout the American South in the decades prior to the civil rights movement documents the contributions of people from all walks of life, in an account that places key events against a backdrop of national and global events. 10,000 first printing.

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"Remarkable ... An eye-opening book [on] the freedom struggle that changed the South, the nation, and the world." -- Washington PostThe civil rights movement that looms over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of an iceberg, the legal and political remnant of a broad, raucous, deeply American movement for social justice that flourished from the 1920s through the 1940s. This rich history of that early movement introduces us to a contentious mix of home-grown radicals, labor activists, newspaper editors, black workers, and intellectuals who employed every strategy imaginable to take Dixie down. In a dramatic narrative Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore deftly shows how the movement unfolded against national and global developments, gaining focus and finally arriving at a narrow but effective legal strategy for securing desegregation and political rights. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. 642 pages; Description: xii, 642 p. , 24 p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 559-620) and index. Subjects: Social justice --History --Social movements --African Americans --Civil rights --Southern States --20th century --Politics and government --1865-1950.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0393062449
• ISBN 13: 9780393062441
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 642