Robert Cook

Sweet Land of Liberty? (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317893660
• Artikelnr.: 40172611

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. Bibliography