| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 333 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This book is a comprehensive account of the African American struggle for freedom and equality from the Civil War to the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement. It stresses black agency and how white people helped the movement out of cooperation, co-optation, and coercion. |
| Contents |
People of Good Will -- Reconstruction, 1865-1877 -- Redemption, 1877-1892 -- Reconciliation, 1889-1908 -- Resistance, 1890-1908 -- Reality : Jim Crow during the Nadir, 1900-1917 -- Organization, 1909-1930 -- The Depression and the New Deal, 1930-1940 -- World War II and the 1940s -- The United States in 1950 -- The United States Today. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.
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African Americans -- Civil rights. |
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History. |
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Racism -- United States -- History.
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Racism. |
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United States. |
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African American political activists.
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African American political activists. |
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Social reformers -- United States.
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Social reformers. |
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United States -- Race relations.
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African Americans -- Social conditions.
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African Americans -- Economic conditions.
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Race relations. |
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African Americans -- Politics and government.
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African Americans -- Social conditions. |
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United States -- Social conditions.
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African Americans -- Economic conditions. |
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African Americans -- Politics and government. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. |
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Social conditions. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Racism. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Brooker, Russell Gott, 1949- American Civil Rights Movement, 1865-1950. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017] 9780739179925 (DLC) 2016043837 (OCoLC)958798145 |
| ISBN |
9780739179932 electronic book |
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0739179934 electronic book |
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0739179926 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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9780739179925 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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