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American Babylon : Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland /

This volume demonstrates that the history of civil rights and black liberation politics in California did not follow a southern model, but represented a long-term struggle for economic rights that began in World War II and continued through the rise of the Black Panthers in the late 1960s

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Self, Robert O., 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press [2003]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary:This volume demonstrates that the history of civil rights and black liberation politics in California did not follow a southern model, but represented a long-term struggle for economic rights that began in World War II and continued through the rise of the Black Panthers in the late 1960s
Physical Description:1 online resource (408 pages): illustrations, maps
Awards:American Political Science Association Ralph J. Bunche Award, 2004.
ISBN:9781400844173