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Why not Every Man? : : African Americans and Civil Disobedience in the Quest for the Dream

Hendrick, George. Book - 2005 None on shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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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.
"As the Hendricks show, the record of civil disobedience in the service of African Americans is not without its failures. But overall it has been a powerful weapon in their quest for a share of the American dream. This is a succinct history of that story."--Jacket.

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