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Climbin' Jacob's ladder : the Black freedom movement writings of Jack O'Dell /

This book collects for the first time the black freedom movement writings of Jack O'Dell and restores one of the great unsung heroes of the civil rights movement to his rightful place in the historical record. Climbin' Jacob's Ladder puts O'Dell's historically significant es...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Dell, Jack (Jack H.)
Otros Autores: Singh, Nikhil Pal
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley [Calif.] : University of California Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1, Tracing the Freedomway. Report on voter registration work, Southern Christian Leadership Conference ; Foundations of racism in American life ; Editorial, Freedomways special issue on Mississippi ; The threshold of a new reconstruction ; A colonized people ; The July rebellions and the "military state" ; Climbin' Jacob's ladder : the life and times of the freedom movement ; Charleston's legacy to the poor people's campaign ; Report of the acting executive director, Southern Christian Leadership Conference ; A rock in a weary lan' : Paul Robeson's leadership and "the movement" in the decade before Montgomery ; An assessment : push's first five years and its next five ; On the transition from civil rights to civil equality ; The rainbow coalition : organizational principles
  • pt. 2, Contemporary reflections ; Democracy charter ; Reclaiming the second reconstruction: democracy, class, and the social transformation of the United States.