Why not Every Man? : : African Americans and Civil Disobedience in the Quest for the Dream
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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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PUBLISHED
Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, ©2005.
Year Published: 2005
Description: 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1566636094
9781566636094
1566636450
9781566636452
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Hendrick, Willene, 1928-2010.
SUBJECTS
Thoreau, Henry David, -- 1817-1862 -- Political and social views.
Gandhi, -- Mahatma, -- 1869-1948 -- Political and social views.
King, Martin Luther, -- Jr., -- 1929-1968 -- Political and social views.
Gandhi, -- Mahatma, -- 1869-1948
King, Martin Luther, -- Jr., -- 1929-1968
Thoreau, Henry David, -- 1817-1862
African Americans -- History.
Civil disobedience -- United States -- History.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History.
Slavery -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Civil disobedience.
Civil rights movements.
Political and social views.
Race relations.
Slavery.
Bürgerrecht.
Bürgerrechtsbewegung.
Rassenbeziehung.
Sklaverei.
United States -- Race relations.
United States.
Schwarze.
USA.
History.