L. Williams

Broschiertes Buch

Servants of the People

The 1960s Legacy of African American Leadership

Beschreibung

This revised and expanded edition traces the lives of key American civil rights leaders as they willingly risk their lives for the civil rights cause, including A. Philip Randolph, Thurgood Marshall, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, and Ella Baker.

Autor

LEA E. WILLIAMS is an independent scholar and a senior administrator at North Carolina A&T State University, USA. She is the former executive director of the Women's Leadership Institute at Bennett College and the National African-American Women's Leadership Institute, Inc.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-60633-3
• 2. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9780230606333
• ISBN-10: 0230606334
• Artikelnr.: 23484399

Rezensionen

Praise for the first edition:

"An informative and illuminating study of African-American leaders in the Sixties . . . A fascinating journey through the lives of those who gave the Civil Rights movement its foundation." - Library Journal

"A helpful supplement where leadership issues are being debated." - Booklist