Bloody Lowndes : Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black Belt /
Drawing on sources ranging from government documents to personal interviews with Lowndes County residents, Hasan Kwame Jeffries tells the remarkable story of the Lowndes County freedom struggle and its contribution to the larger civil rights movement.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chesham :
Combined Academic [distributor],
2010.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Machine generated contents note: 1. Conditions Unfavorable to the Rise of the Negro: The Pursuit of Freedom Rights before the Civil Rights Era
- 2. I Didn't Come Here to Knock: The Making of a Grassroots Social Movement
- 3. We Ain't Going to Shed a Tear for Jon: School Desegregation, White Resistance, and the African American Response
- 4. I'm Going to Try to Take Some of the Freedom Here Back Home: The Federal Government and the Fight for Freedom Rights
- 5. We Gonna Show Alabama Just How Bad We Are: The Birth of the Original Black Panther Party and the Development of Freedom Politics
- 6. Tax the Rich to Feed the Poor: Black Power and the Election of 1966
- 7. Now Is the Time for Work to Begin: Black Politics in the Post-Civil Rights Era.