Robert Parris Moses : a life in civil rights and leadership at the grassroots / Laura Visser-Maessen

Author:: Visser-Maessen, Laura
Published:: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Copyright Date:: ©2016
Physical Description:: xvii, 432 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Contents:

The making of a mind -- A movement education -- You killed my husband -- The Bob Moses mystique -- A new dimension -- Damned if you, damned if you don't -- Freedom is a constant struggle -- A moment lost -- Not a happy time.

Summary:

"This new biography casts Moses in a new light, revealing him as a far more strategic, calculating, and hands-on organizer than in previous portrayals of him as an idealist and saintly figure"--

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ISBN:

9781469627984 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1469627981 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-403) and index.

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased with funds from the Class of 1935 Libraries Endowment; 2016

Endowment Note:

Class of 1935 Libraries Endowment

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