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How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow

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Description for How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow Hardback. In 1985, a black veteran of the civil rights movement offered a bleak vision of a long and troubled struggle. For black men and women, the question is: how free is free? Despite two major efforts to reconstruct race relations, injustices remain. This book probes the story of racial inequality and the fight for freedom in black America. Series: The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 122 x 188 x 23. Weight in Grams: 258.

In 1985, a black veteran of the civil rights movement offered a bleak vision of a long and troubled struggle. For more than a century, black southerners learned to live with betrayed expectations, diminishing prospects, and devastated aspirations. Their odyssey includes some of the most appalling examples of terrorism, violence, and dehumanization in the history of this nation. But, as Leon Litwack graphically demonstrates, it is at the same time an odyssey of resilience and resistance defined by day-to-day acts of protest: the fight for justice poignantly recorded in the stories, songs, images, and movements of a people trying to ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
The Nathan I. Huggins Lectures
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674031524
SKU
V9780674031524
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About Leon F. Litwack
Leon F. Litwack is A. & M. Morrison Professor of American History, Emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received the Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2007. He is also winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the American Book Award and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment ... Read more

Reviews for How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow
With How Free is Free?, a master historian elegantly buries Jim Crow only to find his evil twin, Poverty, still haunts the graveyard.
William S. McFeely, author of Frederick Douglass and Sapelo's People: A Long Walk Into Freedom How Free Is Free is a powerful addition to Leon Litwack's now multi-volume epic on African-American travails in slavery and ... Read more

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