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Fighting the good fight : the story of the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 1865-1977 /
The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church played an important role in the Civil Rights movement-it was the backbone of the Montgomery bus boycott, which served as a model for other grassroots demonstrations and which also propelled Martin Luther King, Jr. into the national spotlight. Roberson chronicle...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2005.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Church played an important role in the Civil Rights movement-it was the backbone of the Montgomery bus boycott, which served as a model for other grassroots demonstrations and which also propelled Martin Luther King, Jr. into the national spotlight. Roberson chronicles five generations in the life of this congregation. He uses it as a lens through which to explore how the church functioned as a formative social, cultural, and political institution within a racially fractured and continually shifting cultural and civil landscape. Roberson highlights some. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xxi, 248 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781136728976 113672897X 1299977391 9781299977396 9781315024394 131502439X |