Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 (eBook)

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore (Autor)

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2009
664 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-34818-7 (ISBN)

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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 national and global developments, gaining focus and finally arriving at a narrow but effective legal strategy for securing desegregation and political rights.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.8.2009
• Zusatzinfo: 45 illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 20th century • activism • African American History • communism • Jim Crow • Labor • Social Justice • United States • US
• ISBN-10: 0-393-34818-0 / 0393348180
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34818-7 / 9780393348187