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Why Not Every Man?
George Hendrick
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Description for Why Not Every Man?
Paperback. The record of civil disobedience by African Americans begins soon after slaves were brought legally to the American colonies: they began to run away. Civil disobedience, first suggested in America by Henry Thoreau, crossed oceans to influence Mohandas K. Gandhi, whose thinking in turn attracted a divinity student named Martin Luther King, Jr. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 331.
The record of civil disobedience by African Americans, which George and Willene Hendrick recount in Why Not Every Man?, begins soon after slaves were brought legally to the American colonies: they began to run away. Through the years of the abolitionists, the struggle against the Fugitive Slave Act, opposition to Jim Crow laws, and the emergence of the civil rights movement, blacks continued the peaceful protest of their inequality and lack of freedom. In addition to describing these often forgotten episodes, the Hendricks show how the idea of civil disobedience, first suggested in America by Henry David Thoreau, crossed oceans ... Read more
The record of civil disobedience by African Americans, which George and Willene Hendrick recount in Why Not Every Man?, begins soon after slaves were brought legally to the American colonies: they began to run away. Through the years of the abolitionists, the struggle against the Fugitive Slave Act, opposition to Jim Crow laws, and the emergence of the civil rights movement, blacks continued the peaceful protest of their inequality and lack of freedom. In addition to describing these often forgotten episodes, the Hendricks show how the idea of civil disobedience, first suggested in America by Henry David Thoreau, crossed oceans ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566636452
SKU
V9781566636452
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About George Hendrick
George and Willene Hendrick are independent scholars and researchers who together have written The Creole Mutiny: A Tale of Revolt Aboard a Slave Ship and have edited Fleeing for Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad, Two Slave Rebellions at Sea, and several collections of Carl Sandburg's poems. George Hendrick, formerly professor of English at the University of Illinois, has also ... Read more
Reviews for Why Not Every Man?
Again the Hendricks have produced a powerful work. Their important new book is welcome and timely for a broad audience.
John David Smith, professor, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte The authors ably interweave the historical pre-conditions of nonviolent civil disobedience into a tapestry that forms the foundation for the modern civil rights movement.
Vernon Ford
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John David Smith, professor, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte The authors ably interweave the historical pre-conditions of nonviolent civil disobedience into a tapestry that forms the foundation for the modern civil rights movement.
Vernon Ford
... Read more