Hosea Williams : A Lifetime of Defiance and Protest /

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"When civil rights leader Hosea Lorenzo Williams died in 2000, U.S. Congressman John Lewis said of him, "Hosea Williams must be looked upon as one of the founding fathers of the new America. Through his actions, he helped liberate all of us."In this first comprehensive biography of Wi...

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Main Author: Rice, Rolundus (Author)
Other Authors: Young, Andrew, 1932- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Williams, Hosea, > 1926-2000.
King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968.
King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968 > Friends and associates.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference > Biography.
Legislators.
Friendship.
Civil rights workers.
Civil rights movements.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African American political activists.
African American civil rights workers.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights.
Legislators > Georgia > Biography.
African American political activists > Georgia > Biography.
Civil rights workers > United States > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
African American civil rights workers > Biography.
United States.
Georgia > Atlanta.
Georgia.
Atlanta (Ga.) > Biography.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Ambassador Andrew Young Jr.
  • "Little Turner", World War II, and Atlanta
  • "The defiant house nigger"
  • Savannah's rebellious "Negro chieftain"
  • "King's Kamikaze" : St. Augustine and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Selma and the Voting Rights Act, 1965
  • SCOPE, SNCC, and black power, 1965-1966
  • Chicago, the Kentucky Derby, and the Poor People's Campaign
  • The movement continues, 1968-1974
  • Politics, prosecution, and persecution, 1975-1984
  • "I'm and opportunist", 1985-2000
  • Hosea Williams's family tree.

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