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Historical influence : reading Georgia Powers as a grassroots civil rights leader in the rough business of Kentucky politics / Anne B. Onyekwuluje.
Van Pelt Library F456.26.P68 O59 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Onyekwuluje, Anne B., 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Powers, Georgia Davis, 1923-.
- Powers, Georgia Davis.
- Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate--Biography.
- Kentucky.
- Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate.
- African American women legislators--Kentucky--Biography.
- African American women legislators.
- Women legislators--Kentucky--Biography.
- Women legislators.
- Legislators--Kentucky--Biography.
- Legislators.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Kentucky--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights movements--Kentucky--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- African Americans--Kentucky--Politics and government--20th century.
- Politics and government.
- History.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Kentucky--Politics and government--20th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 169 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2011]
- Summary:
- Historical Influence is a thematic, political, grassroots civil rights history of Senator Georgia Powers. She made major contributions to the Commonwealth of Kentucky during the rough business of Kentucky politics-the politics of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Life history assumes understanding the specific context of one person is paramount. In Powers's twenty-one years as a Kentucky state senator, she championed bills for open housing and labor, and against race, class, sex, education, and job discrimination. Senator Powers sponsored and cosponsored some 147 bills, 75 of which became laws during her tenure.
- Anne B. Onyekwuluje provides an in-depth and inspiring story about Georgia Powers's role in the fight for equal justice in Kentucky and around the world. Powers is positioned politically with women like Harriet Martineau and Ida B. Wells in anchoring the truth about rights, responsibility, and humanity. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- A hunger for justice
- The civil rights movement and other influences
- As senator
- Legislation
- Living out Wells' political thinking and Martineau's socio-political vision
- Perspective
- Feminist advocacy and activism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles Wendell David Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0739150987
- 9780739150986
- 9780739150993
- 0739150995
- OCLC:
- 707966812
- Publisher Number:
- 99945215477
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