Red Activists and Black Freedom
James and Esther Jackson and the Long Civil Rights Revolution
This book deals with the forgotten history of the civil rights movement. The American Left played a significant part in the origins of that movement, whose history has traditionally been focused on the later 1940's and early 1950's. This approach needs serious re-thinking in light of what took place in the later 1930's with the organization and activity of groups like the Southern Negro Youth Congress that brought both African-American and white workers and students together in the fight for economic and social justice. Thanks to the post-World War II Red Scare such groups as well as Left African-American leaders like Esther and James Jackson…
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Weitere Autoren: Nash, Michael H. (Hrsg.) / Leab, Daniel J. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-317-99059-8
- EAN: 9781317990598
- Produktnummer: 31862488
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 136 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'528 KB
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David Levering Lewis is a Pulitzer Prize winning historian who is Julius Silver University Professor at New York University.Michael H. Nash has been Director of the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University since 2001. He holds a PhD in American History from SUNY Binghamton, and has served as Curator at the Hagley Museum and Library (Wilmington, DE).Daniel J. Leab is Professor of History at Seton Hall University, and founding editor of American Communist History. His most recent book is Orwell Subverted: the CIA and the filming of Animal Farm (2007).
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