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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom Struggle

Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom Struggle

Lawson, Steven F.

Paperback

Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twen

20th Century United States HistoryBlack American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0813191548
ISBN13: 9780813191546
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: Jan 5 2006
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.08 Depth: 8.85
Language: English

Over the past thirty years, Steven F. Lawson has established himself as one of the nation's leading historians of the black struggle for equality. Civil Rights Crossroads is an important collection of Lawson's writings about the civil rights movement that is essential reading for anyone concerned about the past, present, and future of race relations in America. Lawson examines the movement from a variety of perspectives--local and national, political and social--to offer penetrating insights into the civil rights movement and its influence on contemporary society.

Civil Rights Crossroads also illuminates the role of a broad array of civil rights activists, familiar and unfamiliar. Lawson describes the efforts of Martin Luther King Jr. and Lyndon Johnson to shape the direction of the struggle, as well as the extraordinary contributions of ordinary people like Fannie Lou Hamer, Harry T. Moore, Ruth Perry, Theodore Gibson, and many other unsung heroes of the most important social movement of the twentieth century. Lawson also examines the decades-long battle to achieve and expand the right of African Americans to vote and to implement the ballot as the cornerstone of attempts at political liberation.

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