Sacred Places: A Guide to the Civil Rights Sites in Atlanta, Georgia - Softcover

Lefever, Harry G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881461210 ISBN 13: 9780881461213

Verlag: Mercer University Press, 2008

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This guide is organized around four walking and driving tours of the important civil rights sites in Atlanta from the 1940s to the present. It also contains historic and current photographs of most of the sites and provides information about how to reach the sites by car or public transportation. Furthermore, the book provides a brief history of the civil rights movement in Atlanta in the 1950s and 1960s, a chronology of the important civil rights events in Atlanta from 1957 to 1968, and a bibliography of books and articles published about civil rights events in Atlanta during the 1950s and 1960s.

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HARRY G. LEFEVER, professor emeritus of Sociology at Spelman College in Atlanta, taught for three years at Eastern Mennonite College in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and published two books, Turtle Bogue: Afro-Caribbean Life and Culture in a Costa Rican Village (1992) and Undaunted by the Fight: Spelman College and the Civil Rights Movement, 1957-1967 (2005). He has published articles in Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly, Sociological Analysis, Atlanta Historical Journal, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Labor History, and South Eastern Latin Americanist. MICHAEL C. PAGE is the geospatial librarian for the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He has B.A. and M.A. degrees in geography from Georgia State University. Page, an Atlanta native, resides in Atlanta with his wife and four children.

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• Verlag: Mercer University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0881461210
• ISBN 13: 9780881461213
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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