Defying Dixie

ISBN: 9780393062441

出版年: 2008-1

页数: 642

定价: 288.00元

内容简介

The civil rights movement of 1950s and 1960s America was the tip of an iceberg, the legal and political remnant of a broad, raucous, deeply American movement for social justice that flourished from the 1920s. In a dramatic narrative Defying Dixie shows how the movement unfolded against national and global developments, gaining focus and arriving at a narrow but effective legal strategy for securing desegregation and political rights. Little-known heroes abound in a book that will recast our understanding of the most important social movement in twentieth-century America.