Robert Cook

Sweet Land of Liberty?

The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

A powerful and moving account of the campaign for civil rights in modern America. Robert Cook is concerned less with charismatic leaders like Martin Luther King, and more with the ordinary men and women who were mobilised by the grass-roots activities of civil-rights workers and community leaders.

Produktdetails

• Studies In Modern History
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 139mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780582215320
• ISBN-10: 0582215323
• Artikelnr.: 21531156

Autorenporträt

Robert Cook is Lecturer in American History at the University of Sheffield.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.
1. Change and Continuity in the Jim Crow South.
2. A Pre-History of the Civil Rights Movement.
3. A Movement Stirs 1940-1960.
4. The Destruction of Jim Crow 1960-1965.
5. Grass-roots Organising and the Mississippi Freedom Summer.
6. The Movement in Decline 1965-1968.
7. The Roots of Success.
8. The Struggle Continues.
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