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

Name: Defying Dixie The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950
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ISBN: 9780393335323

ISBN-10: 0393335321

ISBN-13: 9780393335323

Edition: 2009

Authors: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Glenda E. Gilmore, Glenda E. Gilmore

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â€œRemarkable . . . an eye-opening book [on] the freedom struggle that changed the South, the nation, and the world.â€ â€” Washington Post The 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…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/10/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 690
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.83" long x 0.13" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English