Verlag: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981
ISBN 10: 0809001446 ISBN 13: 9780809001446
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
Zustand: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
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Verlag: Hill and Wang, 1993
ISBN 10: 0374523568 ISBN 13: 9780374523565
Anbieter: ZBK Books, Carlstadt, NJ, USA
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Verlag: Hill and Wang, 1992
Anbieter: janet smith, Wheeling, WV, USA
Soft Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Fifteenth Printing. Clean tight copy with no markings. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Verlag: Hill & Wang, 1981
ISBN 10: 0809089254 ISBN 13: 9780809089253
Anbieter: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, USA
paperback. Zustand: Good. Hill & Wang Hardcover with jacket in mylar. EX-LIBRARY with card pocket on rear fly leaf. Tight binding.
Verlag: Hill & Wang
Anbieter: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.7.
Verlag: Hill & Wang, 1981
Anbieter: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, USA
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. unmarked, light shelfwear-NICE Standard-sized.
Verlag: Hill and Wang, 2008
ISBN 10: 0809089246 ISBN 13: 9780809089246
Anbieter: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, USA
Softcover. Zustand: Good. Revised. The Struggle for Black Equality is a dramatic, memorable history of the civil rights movement. Harvard Sitkoff offers both a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and dynamics of civil rights organizations and a compelling analysis of the continuing problems plaguing many African Americans. With a new foreword and afterword, and an up-to-date bibliography, this anniversary edition highlights the continuing significance of the movement for black equality and justice.Harvard Sitkoff, professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, is the author of New Deal for Blacks and editor of Fifty Years Later: The New Deal Evaluted and A History of Our Time.The Struggle for Black Equality is an arresting history of the civil-rights movement-from the pathbreaking Supreme Court decision of 1954, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, through the growth of strife and conflict in the 1960s to the major issues of the 1990s. Harvard Sitkoff offers not only a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and dynamics of the civil-rights organizations-SNCC, CORE, NAACP, SCLC, and others-but a superb study of the continuing problems plaguing the African American population: the future that in 1980 seemed to hold much promise for a better way of life had by the early 1990s hardly lived up to expectations. Jim Crow has gone, but, fifty years after Brown, poverty, big-city slums, white backlash, politically and socially conservative policies, and prolonged recession have made economic progress for the vast majority of blacks an elusive, perhaps ever more distant goal."As an introduction to the subject, this book is outstanding . . . The civil rights movement challenges historians to chronicle the transformations that occurred over three decades [and] few have accomplished this task more satisfactorily than Harvard Sitkoff . . . The Struggle for Black Equality stunningly conveys the passion and anguish of the civil rights movement for those too young to remember and to those who prefer not to forget. From Brown to Bakke, Martin Luther King, Jr., to Malcolm X, and Montgomery to Memphis, the author vividly portrays the many currents flowing into the river of black protest-the individual and social, local and national, practical and philosophical. He skillfully charts the ebb and flow of Afro-American militancy alternating between optimism and despair, and concludes that a third Reconstruction must arise to remedy the economic and institutional ills carried over from the past. Readers will not find 'value-free' history in the pages of Sitkoff's book, for the author seeks to engage his audience, hoping to shatter its complacency. In doing so, he refrains from preaching, and while he never equivocates in his judgments, he carefully presents a balanced treatment."-Steven F. Lawson, University of South Florida, The Public Historian "Sitkoff is an excellent storyteller; he captures the drama of events, the calculations, the horror, the unbelievable sadness of struggle."-David Bradley, The Washington Post Book World"First-rate . . . As an introduction to the subject, this book is outstanding . . . The civil rights movement challenges historians to chronicle the transformations that occurred over three decades [and] few have accomplished this task more satisfactorily than Harvard Sitkoff . . . The Struggle for Black Equality stunningly conveys the passion and anguish of the civil rights movement for those too young to remember and to those who prefer not to forget. From Brown to Bakke, Martin Luther King, Jr., to Malcolm X, and Montgomery to Memphis, the author vividly portrays the many currents flowing into the river of black protest-the individual and social, local and national, practical and philosophical. He skillfully charts the ebb and flow of Afro-American militancy alternating between optimism and despair, and concludes that a third Reconstruction must arise to remedy the economic and insti.
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Verlag: Hill and Wang, 1988
Anbieter: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, USA
Verbandsmitglied: IOBA
Paperback. Zustand: Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Good paperback, 10th printing. Some highlighting in first half.
Verlag: Hill Publishing -, 2008
Anbieter: "Pursuit of Happiness" Books, Oakland, CA, USA
Soft Cover. Zustand: Good. PB/Gd. condition/286 pages - An arresting history of the civil-rights movement. (K1948HI1).
Verlag: Hill & Wang (Sept. 1982), 1982
Anbieter: HPB-Ruby, Dallas, TX, USA
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Verlag: Hill & Wang (Sept. 1982), 1982
Anbieter: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, USA
Unknown Binding. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.7.
Verlag: Hill & Wang, 1993
Anbieter: Collectors Bookstore, Antwerpen, Belgien
Paperback. Zustand: Fine. The struggle for black equality, 1954-1992 Special Collection by Harvard Sitkoff; Eric Foner. Published by Hill & Wang in 1993. Paperback. What makes this title so special is its limited availability. - Publishers Weekly. Collectible item in very fine condition.