Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee - Tapa blanda

Norrell, Robert J.

 
9780807847404: Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee
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ISBN 10: 0807847402 ISBN 13: 9780807847404
Editorial: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998

Sinopsis

In this classic and compelling account, Robert Norrell traces the course of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, capturing both the unique aspects of this key Southern town’s experience and the elements that it shared with other communities during this period.
Home to Booker T. Washington’s famed Tuskegee Institute, the town of Tuskegee boasted an unusually large professional class of African Americans, whose economic security and level of education provided a base for challenging the authority of white conservative officials. Offering sensitive portrayals of both black and white figures, Norrell takes the reader from the founding of the Institute in 1881 and early attempts to create a harmonious society based on the separation of the races to the successes and disappointments delivered by the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
First published in 1985, Reaping the Whirlwind has been updated for this edition. In a newly expanded final chapter, Norrell brings the story up to the present, examining the long-term performance of black officials, the evolution of voting rights policies, the changing economy, and the continuing struggle for school integration in Tuskegee in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Acerca del autor

Robert J. Norrell holds the Bernadotte Schmitt Chair of History at the University of Tennessee. His books include Opening Doors: An Appraisal of Contemporary American Race Relations.

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A narrative history of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, home to an unusually large professional class of African Americans capable of challenging the authority of white conservatives.

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A narrative history of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, home to an unusually large professional class of African Americans capable of challenging the authority of white conservatives.

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Editorial
The University of North Carolina Press
Año de publicación
1998
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0807847402
ISBN 13 
9780807847404
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
276
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9780394536880: Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee

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ISBN 10:  0394536886 ISBN 13:  9780394536880
Editorial: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1985
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