This Is Where I Came in: Black America in the 1960s
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The fascinating and turbulent black America of the 1960s emerges in these essays, through the lenses of dissent and its contradictions. Gerald L. Early revisits this volatile time in American history, when class, culture, and race ignited conflagrations of bitterness and hatred across the nation. The lives of three active and influential people are given special attention: Cecil B. Moore, advocate and agitator in the "racial tinderbox" of black Philadelphia;...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0803267495
ISBN13:9780803267497
Release Date:October 2003
Publisher:Bison Books
Length:144 Pages
Weight:0.39 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"
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Balanced view of Black response to the 60's
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Early writes of three representative and important figures in the Black movement of the 60's. Mohammed Ali, Sammy Davis,Jr., and Cecil Moore. Each man represented a different way of responding to the racism around him. Easy and straight-forward, Early's discussion of the
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