Title:
Why not every man? : African Americans and civil disobedience in the quest for the dream / George Hendrick, Willene Hendrick.
Author:
Hendrick, George.
Hendrick, Willene, 1928-
Publication Information:
Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, c2005.
Call Number:
E185 .H49 2005
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ISBN:
9781566636094
9781566636452
Physical Description:
246 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Introduction : why not every man? -- Slavery and civil disobedience from colonial times to 1830 -- Abolitionists, 1830-1861 -- Civil disobedience and Jim Crow railroad cars -- Danger : "Have top eye open" -- From the Civil War through reconstruction : the end of slavery -- Thoreau's essay travels across the oceans to Gandhi -- The walls of segregation go up once more -- "Trumpets begin to sound" : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the beginnings of the civil disobedience movement -- A better day.
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