Laboured protest: black civil rights in New York City and Detroit during the New Deal and Second World War

"Historians have long realized the US civil rights movement pre-dated Martin Luther King Jr., but they disagree on where, when and why it started. Laboured Protest offers new answers in a study of black political protest during the New Deal and Second World War. It finds a diverse movement wher...

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Main Author: Ayers, Oliver (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Routledge 2019
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Summary:"Historians have long realized the US civil rights movement pre-dated Martin Luther King Jr., but they disagree on where, when and why it started. Laboured Protest offers new answers in a study of black political protest during the New Deal and Second World War. It finds a diverse movement where activists from the left operated alongside, and often in competition with, others who signed up to liberal or nationalist political platforms. Protestors in this period often struggled to challenge the different types of discrimination facing black workers, but their energetic campaigning was part of a more complex, and ultimately more interesting, movement than previously thought"--
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ISBN:9780429019593
0429019599
9780429001000
0429001002

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