Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee - Brossura

Norrell, Robert J.

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ISBN 10: 0807847402 ISBN 13: 9780807847404

Casa editrice: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998

Riassunto

In this classic and compelling account, Robert Norrell traces the course of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, capturing both the unique aspects of this key Southern town's experience and the elements that it shared with other communities during this period.
Home to Booker T. Washington's famed Tuskegee Institute, the town of Tuskegee boasted an unusually large professional class of African Americans, whose economic security and level of education provided a base for challenging the authority of white conservative officials. Offering sensitive portrayals of both black and white figures, Norrell takes the reader from the founding of the Institute in 1881 and early attempts to create a harmonious society based on the separation of the races to the successes and disappointments delivered by the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
First published in 1985, Reaping the Whirlwind has been updated for this edition. In a newly expanded final chapter, Norrell brings the story up to the present, examining the long-term performance of black officials, the evolution of voting rights policies, the changing economy, and the continuing struggle for school integration in Tuskegee in the 1980s and 1990s.

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A narrative history of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, home to an unusually large professional class of African Americans capable of challenging the authority of white conservatives.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: The University of North Carolina Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0807847402
• ISBN 13: 9780807847404
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 276
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