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How Free Is Free? The Long Death of Jim Crow

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ISBN-10: 0674031520

ISBN-13: 9780674031524

Edition: 2009

Authors: Leon F. Litwack

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In 1985, a black veteran of the civil rights movement offered a bleak vision of a long and troubled struggle. For more than a century, black southerners learned to live with betrayed expectations, diminishing prospects, and devastated aspirations. Their odyssey includes some of the most appalling examples of terrorism, violence, and dehumanization in the history of this nation. But, as Leon Litwack graphically demonstrates, it is at the same time an odyssey of resilience and resistance defined by day-to-day acts of protest: the fight for justice poignantly recorded in the stories, songs, images, and movements of a people trying to be heard. For black men and women, the question is: how free…    
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Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 2/27/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 4.37" wide x 7.13" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

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