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Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia, 1940-1980
Stephen G.n. Tuck
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Description for Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia, 1940-1980
Paperback. This sweeping history of the civil rights movement in the South's largest state draws on interviews with 200 people - black and white - who worked for, or actively resisted, the freedom struggle. Num Pages: 360 pages, 25 b&w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL1; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 586.
This sweeping history of the civil rights movement in the South's largest state tells of many Georgias. On one extreme is Atlanta, a metropolitan center of relative black prosperity and training ground of many movement leaders. On another is Albany. A city deep in the "black belt" of the plantation South, it is the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s greatest civil rights setback. Somewhere in between is yet another Georgia, a Georgia whose communities once constituted hundreds of Jim Crow fiefdoms. In places like "Bad" Baker County near the southern border, or in the relatively moderate town of Rome ... Read more
This sweeping history of the civil rights movement in the South's largest state tells of many Georgias. On one extreme is Atlanta, a metropolitan center of relative black prosperity and training ground of many movement leaders. On another is Albany. A city deep in the "black belt" of the plantation South, it is the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s greatest civil rights setback. Somewhere in between is yet another Georgia, a Georgia whose communities once constituted hundreds of Jim Crow fiefdoms. In places like "Bad" Baker County near the southern border, or in the relatively moderate town of Rome ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820325286
SKU
V9780820325286
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Reviews for Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia, 1940-1980
Shows how Georgia's special brand of politics influenced the struggle against discrimination. This impressive book makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the civil rights movement. - Adam Fairclough, author of To Redeem the Soul of America; ""Tuck's account of the many movements in Georgia is both bold conceptually and persuasive in its contention that 'excessive Atlanta-centrism distorts the ... Read more