Reaping the Whirlwind The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee

Name: Reaping the Whirlwind The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee
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ISBN: 9780807847404

ISBN-10: 0807847402

ISBN-13: 9780807847404

Edition: 1998

Authors: Robert J. Norrell

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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…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 11/30/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



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