Description
The civil rights movement that looms over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of an iceberg, the legal and political remnant of a broad, raucous, deeply American movement for social justice that flourished from the 1920s through the 1940s. This rich history of that early movement introduces us to a contentious mix of home-grown radicals, labor activists, newspaper editors, black workers, and intellectuals who employed every strategy imaginable to take Dixie down. In a dramatic narrative Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore deftly shows how the movement unfolded against national and global developments, gaining focus and finally arriving at a narrow but effective legal strategy for securing desegregation and political rights.
Author: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/01/2009
Pages: 690
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.80d
ISBN13: 9780393335323
ISBN10: 0393335321
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Civil Rights
- History | United States | State & Local | South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,
- History | United States | 20th Century