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The shame of southern politics : essays and speeches / Leslie Dunbar.
Van Pelt Library E185.97.D83 D86 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunbar, Leslie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dunbar, Leslie--Archives.
- Dunbar, Leslie.
- African Americans--Archives.
- African Americans.
- African American political activists--Archives.
- African American political activists.
- African American civil rights workers--Archives.
- African American civil rights workers.
- Politics and government.
- Race relations.
- Southern States--Politics and government--1951---Sources.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Race relations--Sources.
- United States--Politics and government--1945-1989--Sources.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--1989---Sources.
- United States--Race relations--Sources.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--Sources.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- History.
- Genre:
- Sources.
- Archives.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2002]
- Summary:
- "The civil rights movement was one of the ennobling periods in our nation's history. I was not one of its principle figures, certainly not one of its leaders. If the whole of it might be conceived of as one single great enterprise, I might be considered a branch manager. But I was there . . ." -- from the Prologue
- As a leader of the Southern Regional Council in the early 1960s, and later as executive director of the Field Foundation, Leslie Dunbar's advocacy and behind-the-scenes organizing made him one of the most significant (but least recognized) people in the civil rights movement. His essays and speeches often helped set the agenda. They also continue to offer a prophetic voice in our struggle to create a more humane and fully integrated America.
- The Shame of Southern Politics gathers for the first time fourteen of Dunbar's essays and speeches on the courage and values of the southern civil rights movement. Dunbar's selected writings, ranging from the classic 1961 essay "The Annealing of the South" to a post-September 11th meditation, give eloquent voice to the best of America's liberal tradition. A new essay entitled "1968" offers Dunbar's unique take on that transformational year.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-175).
- ISBN:
- 0813122619
- OCLC:
- 50205580
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