The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement (The Human Tradition in America) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0742544095 ISBN 13: 9780742544093

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006

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Glisson's volume convincingly argues that the civil rights movement was not always top-down and that local grassroots organizers deserve recognition from scholars and the general public alike. * The Journal Of Mississippi History * Susan Glisson has assembled a stellar cast of scholars to tell the stories of individual Americans engaged in the struggle for human rights. This remarkable collection of essays is at once inspiring and sobering. It demonstrates that ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary things. But it also reminds us of the distance still to be traveled before this country lives up to its democratic promise. -- John Dittmer, DePauw University

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This engaging collection of biographies explores the greater civil rights movement in America from Reconstruction to the 1970s while emphasizing the importance of grassroots actions and individual agency in the effort to bring about national civil renewal. While focusing on the importance of individuals on the local level working towards civil rights they also explore the influence that this primarily African-American movement had on others including La Raza, the Native American Movement, feminism, and gay rights. By widening the time frame studied, these essays underscore the difficult, often unrewarded and generational nature of social change.

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• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0742544095
• ISBN 13: 9780742544093
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
• Herausgeber: Glisson Susan M.