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The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement
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Paperback. Editor(s): Ward, Brian; Badger, Tony. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; 1K; GTB; HBJK; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 348.
The Making of Martin Luther King and The Civil Rights Movement incorporates the changing focus of civil rights movement studies to focus on communities and leaders heretofore ignored or under-represented, and thereby challenges many of the agendas established by civil rights scholarship of the past twenty-five years. We learn from essays on communities in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Montgomery that key centers of black life, such as unions, schools, teachers, businessmen, and masonic lodges played important roles in the movement. We learn of the importance of influential local leaders such as W. H. Flowers in Arkansas and Edgar Daniel Nixon in ... Read more
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Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Weight
341g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814792964
SKU
V9780814792964
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99-50
About Ward
Brian Ward is Lecturer in American History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Tony Badger is Paul Mellon Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge.
Reviews for The Making of Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement
"The volume effectively challenges accepted notions of "race" and "racial equality" and considers the long-term effects of the struggle on its participants, tracing the development of African-American political thought since the 1960s."
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