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Divided minds : intellectuals and the civil rights movement / Carol Polsgrove.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Polsgrove, Carol.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- History.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- United States.
- Intellectuals--Political activity--United States--History--20th century.
- Intellectuals.
- Intellectuals--Political activity.
- Intellectuals--Political activity--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- New York (State)--New York.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- United States--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Intellectual life.
- New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 296 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, [2001]
- Summary:
- No other movement in the twentieth century posed a starker challenge to American democracy than that of civil rights. Its premise was simple; its purpose clear. And yet, as Carol Polsgrove shows in this revelatory history of the movement for racial equality during its climactic years, some of America's best-known intellectuals proved curiously reluctant to face up to its demands. Based upon unpublished archival material and new interviews, Divided Minds unveils startling new portraits of leading writers and scholars who responded to the Supreme Court's call for equality in Brown v. Board of Education with peculiar ambivalence.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Brown v. Board of Education and the White Resistance, 1954-1957
- Chapter 1 "Go Slow" 3
- Chapter 2 Northern Reservations 41
- Chapter 3 Missing Persons 65
- Part 2 Gathering Strength, 1957-1963
- Chapter 4 "To Be Transformed" 103
- Chapter 5 "On the Stage of the World" 125
- Chapter 6 "And Then Came Baldwin" 155
- Chapter 7 This "Terrifying Crisis" 173
- Part 3 The Last Campaigns, 1963-1965
- Chapter 8 Calling the Question 211.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-280) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0393020134
- OCLC:
- 45325056
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