Freedom Rights: New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 081313448X ISBN 13 : 9780813134482

Editeur : The University Press of Kentucky, 2011

Synopsis

The history of the Civil Rights Movement is too frequently simplified and uncritically passed down from generation to generation. Many students today learn about famous leaders and national campaigns without getting much context about the many people who struggled for many years at local levels. Historian Steven F. Lawson became frustrated with the widely accepted depiction of the Movement and called for a broader and more interactive model of scholarship that would provide a more complex and co

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Danielle L. McGuire, assistant professor at Wayne State University, is the author of At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Race and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. She lives in Detroit, Michigan.

John Dittmer, professor emeritus at DePauw University, is the author of The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care. He lives in Fillmore, Indiana.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The University Press of Kentucky
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081313448X
• ISBN 13: 9780813134482
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 402
• Éditeur: McGuire Danielle L, Dittmer John
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