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Black Lives, White Lives Three Decades of Race Relations in America.
Now with a new foreword, this timely reissue features a remarkable collection of oral histories that trace three decades of turbulent race relations and social change in the United States for a new generation of activists. One evening in 1955, Howard Spence, a Mississippi field representative for t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2022.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Now with a new foreword, this timely reissue features a remarkable collection of oral histories that trace three decades of turbulent race relations and social change in the United States for a new generation of activists. One evening in 1955, Howard Spence, a Mississippi field representative for the NAACP investigating the Emmett Till murder, was confronted by Klansmen who burned an eight-foot cross on his front lawn. ""I felt my life wasn't worth a penny with a hole in it."" Twenty-four years later, Spence had become a respected pillar of that same Mississippi town, serving as its first Bla. |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (492 p.) |
| ISBN: | 0520386027 9780520386020 |