Reaping the whirlwind : the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, with a new concluding chapter by the author / Robert J. Norrell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Norrell, Robert J. (Robert Jefferson)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Tuskegee.

African Americans.

African Americans--Alabama--Tuskegee--Politics and government.

Civil rights movements.

History.

Politics and government.

African Americans--Civil rights.

Tuskegee (Ala.)--Race relations.

Tuskegee (Ala.).

Civil rights movements--Alabama--Tuskegee--History--20th century.

Alabama--Tuskegee.

Physical Description:

x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [1998]

Summary:

"In this classic and compelling account, Robert Norrell traces the course of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, capturing both the unique aspects of this key Southern town's experience and the elements that it shared with other communities during this period.

Home to Booker T. Washington's famed Tuskegee Institute, the town of Tuskegee boasted an unusually large professional class of African Americans, whose economic security and level of education provided a base for challenging the authority of white conservative officials. Offering sensitive portrayals of both black and white figures, Norrell takes the reader from the founding of the Institute in 1881 and early attempts to create a harmonious society based on the separation of the races to the successes and disappointments delivered by the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Notes:

Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1985.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-248) and index.

ISBN:

0807847402

OCLC:

39515662