Black and Green: The Fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland & Black America - Couverture souple

Dooley, Brian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745312950 ISBN 13 : 9780745312958

Editeur : Pluto Press, 1998

Synopsis

'An excellent book.' Irish Voice (New York)

'Focusing on the period from the 1960s onward, Brian Dooley suggests that the black rights struggle in the US had a formative influence on Northern Ireland's civil rights movement which adopted similar tactics of protest marches and sit-ins ... A well researched book, written from an unusual angle that illuminates this understudied international influence on the Ulster conflict' Political Studies

Ties between political activists in Black America and Ireland span several centuries, from the days of the slave trade to the close links between Frederick Douglass and Daniel O'Connell, and between Marcus Garvey and Eamon de Valera. This timely book traces those historic links and examines how the struggle for black civil rights in America in the 1960s helped shape the campaign against discrimination in Northern Ireland. The author includes interviews with key figures such as Angela Davis, Bernadette McAliskey and Eamonn McCann.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Brian Dooley is Director of Communications for Public Citizen, a non-profit advocacy organzation in Washington DC, and is author of a critical study of Robert Kennedy, published by Keele University Press in 1995. He has worked for the BBC in Africa and for Amnesty International in London, and writes for the British press on US and Irish affairs.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pluto Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745312950
• ISBN 13: 9780745312958
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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