Matthew J, Countryman Up south

civil rights and Black power in Philadelphia

"Up South traces the efforts of two generations of black Philadelphians in turn the City of Brotherly Love into a place of promise and opportunity for all. While Philadelphia rarely appears in histories of the modern civil rights struggle, the city was home to a vibrant and groundbreaking movement for racial justice in the years between World War II and the 1970s. By broadening the chronological and geographic parameters of the civil rights movement. Up south explores the origins of civil rights...

Engels | 417 pagina's | University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia | 2007

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