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Taking the Fight South: Chronicle of a Jew's Battle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

Taking the Fight South: Chronicle of a Jew's Battle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

Ball, Howard

Hardcover

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Publisher Price: $36.00

ISBN10: 0268109168
ISBN13: 9780268109165
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Feb 1 2021
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.70 Width: 7.80 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Taking the Fight South provides a timely and telling reminder of the vigilance democracy requires if racial justice is to be fully realized.

Distinguished historian and civil rights activist Howard Ball has written dozens of books during his career, including the landmark biography of Thurgood Marshall, A Defiant Life, and the critically acclaimed Murder in Mississippi, chronicling the Mississippi Burning killings. In Taking the Fight South, arguably his most personal book, Ball focuses on six years, from 1976 to 1982, when, against the advice of friends and colleagues in New York, he and his Jewish family moved from the Bronx to Starkville, Mississippi, where he received a tenured position in the political science department at Mississippi State University. For Ball, his wife, Carol, and their three young daughters, the move represented a leap of faith, ultimately illustrating their deep commitment toward racial justice.

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