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Defying Dixie : The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950
Overview
The civil rights movement that looms over the 1950s and 1960s was the tip of an iceberg, the legal and political remnant of a broad, raucous, deeply American movement for social justice that flourished from the 1920s through the 1940s. This rich history of that early movement introduces us to a contentious mix of home-grown radicals, labor activists, newspaper editors, black workers, and intellectuals who employed every strategy imaginable to take Dixie down. In a dramatic narrative Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore deftly shows how the movement unfolded against national and global developments, gaining focus and finally arriving at a narrow but effective legal strategy for securing desegregation and political rights.
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- ISBN-13: 9780393335323
- ISBN-10: 0393335321
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: August 2009
- Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 1.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.65 pounds
- Page Count: 690
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